DSA-1585-1 speex -- integer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1585-1 speex -- integer overflow

Date Reported:

21 May 2008

Affected Packages:

speex

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1686.

More information:

It was discovered that speex, the Speex codec command line tools, did not correctly deal with negative offsets in a particular header field. This could allow a malicious file to execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.12-3etch4.

We recommend that you upgrade your speex package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/speex_1.1.12.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/speex_1.1.12-3etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/speex_1.1.12-3etch4.dsc

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/speex-doc_1.1.12-3etch4_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex1_1.1.12-3etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex-dev_1.1.12-3etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/speex_1.1.12-3etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex1_1.1.12-3etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/speex_1.1.12-3etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex-dev_1.1.12-3etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/speex_1.1.12-3etch4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex1_1.1.12-3etch4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex-dev_1.1.12-3etch4_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex1_1.1.12-3etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/speex_1.1.12-3etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex-dev_1.1.12-3etch4_i386.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/speex_1.1.12-3etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex1_1.1.12-3etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex-dev_1.1.12-3etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/speex_1.1.12-3etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex-dev_1.1.12-3etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex1_1.1.12-3etch4_mipsel.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex-dev_1.1.12-3etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/libspeex1_1.1.12-3etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/speex/speex_1.1.12-3etch4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.