An application using the MiniUPnP library could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the XML parser functionality of the MiniUPnP library. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user running an application that uses the MiniUPnP library.
20 October 2015
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
An application using the MiniUPnP library could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the XML parser functionality of the MiniUPnP library. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user running an application that uses the MiniUPnP library.
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 applications using the MiniUPnP library to make all the necessary changes.
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