USN-3383-1: libsoup vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3383-1

10th August, 2017

libsoup2.4 vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.04



• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS



• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Applications using libsoup could be made to crash or run programs
as your login if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software description

• libsoup2.4
  - HTTP client/server library for GNOME
  
  

Details

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a stack based buffer overflow when
handling chunked encoding. An attacker could use this to cause a
denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 17.04:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions: