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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60900
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2008:092 (gstreamer-plugins-good)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to gstreamer-plugins-good
announced via advisory MDVSA-2008:092.

A vulnerability in the Speex library was found where it did not
properly validate input values read from the Speex files headers.
An attacker could create a malicious Speex file that would crash an
application or potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code
with the privileges of the application calling the Speex library
(CVE-2008-1686).

The speex plugin in the gstreamer-plugins-good package is similarly
affected by this issue.

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2008:092
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-004.html

Risk factor : Critical

CVSS Score:
9.3

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-1686
BugTraq ID: 28665
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28665
Bugtraq: 20080417 [oCERT-2008-004] multiple speex implementations insufficientboundary checks (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491009/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1584 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1584
Debian Security Information: DSA-1585 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1585
Debian Security Information: DSA-1586 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1586
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00244.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00287.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00357.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-17.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:092
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:093
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:094
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:124
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-004.html
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-2.html
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/speex-dev/2008-April/006636.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10026
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0235.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019875
http://secunia.com/advisories/29672
http://secunia.com/advisories/29727
http://secunia.com/advisories/29835
http://secunia.com/advisories/29845
http://secunia.com/advisories/29854
http://secunia.com/advisories/29866
http://secunia.com/advisories/29878
http://secunia.com/advisories/29880
http://secunia.com/advisories/29881
http://secunia.com/advisories/29882
http://secunia.com/advisories/29898
http://secunia.com/advisories/30104
http://secunia.com/advisories/30117
http://secunia.com/advisories/30119
http://secunia.com/advisories/30337
http://secunia.com/advisories/30353
http://secunia.com/advisories/30358
http://secunia.com/advisories/30581
http://secunia.com/advisories/30717
http://secunia.com/advisories/31393
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.460836
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:012 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:013 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-611-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-611-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-611-3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-635-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1187/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1228/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1268/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1269/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1300/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1301/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1302/references
XForce ISS Database: fishsound-libfishsound-speex-bo(41684)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41684
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