Jose Miguel Esparza discovered that pwlib did not correctly handle large string lengths. A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets to applications linked against pwlib (e.g. Ekiga) causing them to crash, leading to a denial of service.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
8 January 2008
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Jose Miguel Esparza discovered that pwlib did not correctly handle large string lengths. A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets to applications linked against pwlib (e.g. Ekiga) causing them to crash, leading to a denial of service.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect the necessary changes.
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