N/A - USN-3383-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	libsoup vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-3383-1	First vendor Publication	2017-08-10
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2017-08-10
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

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Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
Cvss Impact Score	N/A	Attack Complexity	N/A
Cvss Expoit Score	N/A	Authentication	N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 17.04 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Applications using libsoup could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description: - libsoup2.4: HTTP client/server library for GNOME

Details:

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.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.04:
gir1.2-soup-2.4 2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1
libsoup-gnome2.4-1 2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1
libsoup2.4-1 2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
gir1.2-soup-2.4 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2
libsoup-gnome2.4-1 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2
libsoup2.4-1 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
gir1.2-soup-2.4 2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2
libsoup-gnome2.4-1 2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2
libsoup2.4-1 2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3383-1
CVE-2017-2885

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsoup2.4/2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsoup2.4/2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsoup2.4/2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2