An attacker could send crafted URLs to a SoupServer application and obtain unintended access to files.
It was discovered that libsoup did not properly validate its input when processing SoupServer requests. A remote attacker could exploit this to access files via directory traversal.
28 July 2011
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
An attacker could send crafted URLs to a SoupServer application and obtain unintended access to files.
It was discovered that libsoup did not properly validate its input when processing SoupServer requests. A remote attacker could exploit this to access files via directory traversal.
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 update you need to restart any applications that use libsoup to make all the necessary changes.
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