Applications using libsoup could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a stack based buffer overflow when handling chunked encoding. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.
10 August 2017
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Applications using libsoup could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a stack based buffer overflow when handling chunked encoding. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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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