OpenSLP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Georgi Geshev discovered that OpenSLP incorrectly handled processing certain service requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSLP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-4428)
3 September 2015
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
OpenSLP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Georgi Geshev discovered that OpenSLP incorrectly handled processing certain service requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSLP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-4428)
Qinghao Tang discovered that OpenSLP incorrectly handled processing certain messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSLP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5177)
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.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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