Wednesday, March 8, 2023

[USN-5937-1] Opusfile vulnerability

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5937-1
March 08, 2023

opusfile vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Summary:

Opusfile could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Software Description:
- opusfile: debugging symbols for libopusfile

Details:

It was discovered that Opusfile was not properly validating pointer
arguments in some of its functions, which could lead to a NULL pointer
dereference. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service or have other unspecified impacts.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
  libopusfile0                    0.9+20170913-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  libopusfile0 0.9+20170913-1ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libopusfile0 0.9+20170913-1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
  libopusfile0                    0.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5937-1
  CVE-2022-47021

Package Information:

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