Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1243-1 xbmc -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

16 Jan 2018

Affected Packages:

xbmc

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 863230.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-8314.

More information:

The Check Point Research Team discovered that the XBMC media center allows arbitrary file write when a malicious subtitle file is downloaded in zip format. This update requires the new dependency libboost-regex1.49.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xbmc packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS