Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2412-1 libvorbis

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2412-1 libvorbis -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

19 Feb 2012

Affected Packages:

libvorbis

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-0444.

More information:

It was discovered that a heap overflow in the Vorbis audio compression library could lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Ogg Vorbis file is processed.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.1-1+squeeze1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvorbis packages.