Debian: New libvorbis packages fix several vulnerabilities


 
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Old 06-03-2008
Debian: New libvorbis packages fix several vulnerabilities

LinuxSecurity.com: libvorbis does not properly handle a zero value which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or infinite loop) or trigger an integer overflow.

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libvorbis(3)							   User Commands						      libvorbis(3)

NAME
libvorbis - Xiph.org compression format library DESCRIPTION
libvorbis is an implementation of the Vorbis specification by the Xiph.org foundation. libvorbis provides an API to work with the Vorbis multimedia compression format. Vorbis is an audio compression scheme that is designed to be contained in the Ogg container. Note that other formats are capable of being embedded in an Ogg container, such as FLAC and Speex. To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version of the package. FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html Location of developer documentation ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWogg-vorbis | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
libogg(3) NOTES
Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004. SunOS 5.10 7 Sep 2004 libvorbis(3)