USN-3383-1: libsoup vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3383-1

10th August, 2017

libsoup2.4 vulnerability

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

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Applications using libsoup could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software description

• libsoup2.4 - HTTP client/server library for GNOME

Details

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a stack based buffer overflow when
handling chunked encoding. An attacker could use this to cause a
denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.04:

libsoup2.4-1 2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1

gir1.2-soup-2.4 2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1

libsoup-gnome2.4-1 2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

libsoup2.4-1 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2

gir1.2-soup-2.4 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2

libsoup-gnome2.4-1 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

libsoup2.4-1 2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2

gir1.2-soup-2.4 2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2

libsoup-gnome2.4-1 2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

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

References

CVE-2017-2885

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2uKB9DA