USN-3569-1: libvorbis vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3569-1

13th February, 2018

libvorbis vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 17.10



• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS



• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in libvorbis.

Software description

• libvorbis
  - The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
  
  

Details

It was discovered that libvorbis incorrectly handled certain sound files.
An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.
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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.10:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
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