Debian: New speex packages fix execution of arbitrary code
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1585-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp May 21, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : speex Vulnerability : integer overflow Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-1686 It was discovered that speex, The Speex codec command line tools, did not correctly did not correctly deal with negative offsets in a particular header field. This could allow a malicious file to execute arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.12-3etch1. We recommend that you upgrade your speex package. Upgrade instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - -------------------------------Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 740110 1bd6cdf3a0ebabf818cd72a3401e2610 Size/MD5 checksum: 16595 589686ba95740aa4a3e5549f985b2a1e Size/MD5 checksum: 878 ab141143903f5ff0b32e42c413ba3bd5 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 1765026 9bda06707fdacf89ce47e3b16184da7e alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 87436 c3c2045fb8d07accaf2b04199fc5e07d Size/MD5 checksum: 127628 ae0d23d6542f4ec2b387d3e5129f072f Size/MD5 checksum: 27558 4aa4711d1ce23548ede4c7a2cf4d8d41 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 78802 f95d7ce2b1d4eb0d31ac136dc7f9bc42 Size/MD5 checksum: 25840 e25a296956d4e4d64c800ac2bb9b9d52 Size/MD5 checksum: 106064 e23d8bb042fea0fcb5e6bdbf320a8c9d arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 25932 7cfea1ec2ae44fefa975ff298c6c0ad2 Size/MD5 checksum: 75946 c8dd3e44e83df61526816406f806cf52 Size/MD5 checksum: 93358 a75dee44feb184451b93b15025fe0481 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 76400 e36b4b453a1c9810c7422c0e9174780e Size/MD5 checksum: 25424 878ca5f27331a9fe214c070a058d432a Size/MD5 checksum: 93212 3ae87c42c88ea0299e34d34e40f59adf mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 25778 3f5aa30bf033ebee2030d2df8da7ad01 Size/MD5 checksum: 79550 8579afd56d4fa799b26f99a88697b594 Size/MD5 checksum: 112552 afed5eb65aaa68d56b0ab1e8ceb7b9ab mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 25658 6bb7e6e3c8b96a19353548fe218986ae Size/MD5 checksum: 113464 b4400e5b439a92a73a37624ef39ec156 Size/MD5 checksum: 79760 f4b7c5d4ee70b35d58a12d9e3d0aacba sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 100110 09ca9b0636b05f702d5460e95a0f2bbf Size/MD5 checksum: 77984 d11112e21637cd910fd55202ac039dcb Size/MD5 checksum: 25708 3403ccb0987b5e7bbf7c7d988d28b4bf These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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