Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4141-1 libvorbisidec -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 16 Mar 2018
- Affected Packages:
- libvorbisidec
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 893132.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-5147. - More information:
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Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that an out-of-bounds memory write in the codebook parsing code of the Libtremor multimedia library could result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Vorbis file is opened.
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2+svn18153-1~deb8u2.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2+svn18153-1+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libvorbisidec packages.
For the detailed security status of libvorbisidec please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libvorbisidec