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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-3103 (speex)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: speex-1.2-0.4.beta2
Date:  Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:52:38 +0000
Message-ID:  <200804170404.m3H44T0D014957@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-3103 2008-04-17 03:21:02 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : speex Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.2 Release : 0.4.beta2 URL : http://www.speex.org/ Summary : A voice compression format (codec) Description : Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP (VoIP), Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech data (e.g. voice mail). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Security update: Add mode checks to speex_packet_to_header() to protect applications using speex library and not having proper checks (CVE-2008-1686, #441239, https://trac.xiph.org/changeset/14701) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Apr 15 2008 Tomas Hoger <thoger@redhat.com> - 1.2-0.4.beta2 - Security update: Add mode checks to speex_packet_to_header() to protect applications using speex library and not having proper checks (CVE-2008-1686, #441239, https://trac.xiph.org/changeset/14701) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #441239 - CVE-2008-1686 speex, libfishsound: insufficient boundary checks https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441239 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update speex' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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