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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2169-1 libmtp -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

05 Apr 2020

Affected Packages:

libmtp

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9831, CVE-2017-9832.

More information:

libmtp is a library for communicating with MTP aware devices. The Media Transfer Protocol (commonly referred to as MTP) is a devised set of custom extensions to support the transfer of music files on USB digital audio players and movie files on USB portable media players.

• CVE-2017-9831

  An integer overflow vulnerability in the ptp_unpack_EOS_CustomFuncEx function of the ptp-pack.c file allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) or maybe remote code execution by inserting a mobile device into a personal computer through a USB cable.

• CVE-2017-9832

  An integer overflow vulnerability in ptp-pack.c (ptp_unpack_OPL function) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) or maybe remote code execution by inserting a mobile device into a personal computer through a USB cable.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.8-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libmtp packages.

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