Debian Long Term Support / LTS Security Information / 2018 / Security Information -- DLA-1416-1 libsoup2.4

Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1416-1 libsoup2.4 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

06 Jul 2018

Affected Packages:

libsoup2.4

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-12910.

More information:

It was discovered that the Soup HTTP library performed insuffient validation of cookie requests which could result in an out-of-bounds memory read.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2.48.0-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libsoup2.4 packages.

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