Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2039-1 libvorbis -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
17 Dec 2019
Affected Packages:
libvorbis
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-11333, CVE-2017-14633.
More information:

Two issues have been found in libvorbis, a decoder library for Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec.

2017-14633

In Xiph.Org libvorbis 1.3.5, an out-of-bounds array read vulnerability exists in the function mapping0_forward() in mapping0.c, which may lead to DoS when operating on a crafted audio file with vorbis_analysis().

2017-11333

The vorbis_analysis_wrote function in lib/block.c in Xiph.Org libvorbis 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OOM) via a crafted wav file.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.4-2+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvorbis packages.

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