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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2995-1 lzo2 -- security update

Date Reported:

03 Aug 2014

Affected Packages:

lzo2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 752861.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-4607.

More information:

Don A. Bailey from Lab Mouse Security discovered an integer overflow flaw in the way the lzo library decompressed certain archives compressed with the LZO algorithm. An attacker could create a specially crafted LZO-compressed input that, when decompressed by an application using the lzo library, would cause that application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.06-1+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.08-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.08-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your lzo2 packages.