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Gentoo update for speex
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29866
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Release Date:
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2008-04-18
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Popularity:
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3,475 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Gentoo Linux 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-1686
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Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for speex. This fixes a security issue, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.
NOTE: This update adds additional checks to "speex_packet_to_header()" to protect applications using the speex library and not having proper checks.
For more information:
SA29727
Solution:
Update to "media-libs/speex-1.2_beta3_p2" or later.
Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-17.xml
Other References:
SA29727:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29727/
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