USN-2780-2: MiniUPnP vulnerability
Publication date
23 October 2015
Overview
An application using the MiniUPnP library could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Releases
Packages
- miniupnpc - UPnP IGD client lightweight library
Details
USN-2780-1 fixed a vulnerability in the MiniUPnP library in Ubuntu
12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 15.04. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 15.10.
Original advisory details:
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.
USN-2780-1 fixed a vulnerability in the MiniUPnP library in Ubuntu
12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 15.04. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 15.10.
Original advisory details:
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.
Update instructions
After a standard system update you need to restart applications using the MiniUPnP library to make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 15.10 wily | libminiupnpc10 – 1.9.20140610-2ubuntu2 | ||
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