gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200804-17.xml

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<glsa id="200804-17">
  <title>Speex: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    Improper input validation in Speex might lead to array indexing
    vulnerabilities in multiple player applications.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">speex</product>
  <announced>April 17, 2008</announced>
  <revised>April 17, 2008: 01</revised>
  <bug>217715</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-libs/speex" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.2_beta3_p2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.2_beta3_p2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Speex is an audio compression format designed for speech that is free
    of patent restrictions.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    oCERT reported that the Speex library does not properly validate the
    "mode" value it derives from Speex streams, allowing for array indexing
    vulnerabilities inside multiple player applications. Within Gentoo,
    xine-lib, VLC, gst-plugins-speex from the GStreamer Good Plug-ins,
    vorbis-tools, libfishsound, Sweep, SDL_sound, and speexdec were found
    to be vulnerable.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Speex
    file or network stream with an application listed above. This might
    lead to the execution of arbitrary code with privileges of the user
    playing the file.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Speex users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-libs/speex-1.2_beta3_p2&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1686">CVE-2008-1686</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:58:14 +0000">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:58:25 +0000">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:58:23 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>