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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: USN-611-1 Moderate: Speex Denial Of Service Threat
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May 8, 2008
Ubuntu Security Advisory USN-612-1 tackles a critical libxml2 vulnerability, mitigating buffer overflow dangers and potential exploitation threats.
It was discovered that Speex did not properly validate its input when processing Speex file headers
Summary
Topics Covered
security advisory
denial of service
software update
Ubuntu
input validation
arbitrary code
speex
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