Issued:
2008-04-16
Updated:
2008-04-16

RHSA-2008:0235 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: speex security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Updated speex packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.

Description

Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech.
The Speex package contains a library for handling Speex files and sample
encoder and decoder implementations using this library.

The Speex library was found to not properly validate input values read from
the Speex files headers. An attacker could create a malicious Speex file
that would crash an application or, possibly, allow arbitrary code
execution with the privileges of the application calling the Speex library.
(CVE-2008-1686)

All users of speex are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.1 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.1 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.1 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.6 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.1 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.6 s390
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.1 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 4.6 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 441239 - CVE-2008-1686 speex, libfishsound: insufficient boundary checks

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4

SRPM
s390x
speex-1.0.4-4.el4_6.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: 56c1582a3563346ba78aff96e0c04d0acbfaf0ff00b7f5f74150592e516ffb8e
s390
speex-1.0.4-4.el4_6.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: 56c1582a3563346ba78aff96e0c04d0acbfaf0ff00b7f5f74150592e516ffb8e
speex-devel-1.0.4-4.el4_6.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: 2bb17b7e5fc86996c740c36374ba45442bdcd7e75559961d1d2a8efb0cd70b23

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.6

SRPM
s390x
speex-1.0.4-4.el4_6.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: 56c1582a3563346ba78aff96e0c04d0acbfaf0ff00b7f5f74150592e516ffb8e
s390
speex-1.0.4-4.el4_6.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: 56c1582a3563346ba78aff96e0c04d0acbfaf0ff00b7f5f74150592e516ffb8e
speex-devel-1.0.4-4.el4_6.1.s390.rpm SHA-256: 2bb17b7e5fc86996c740c36374ba45442bdcd7e75559961d1d2a8efb0cd70b23

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