Summary
The remote host is missing an update to libtheora
announced via advisory DSA 2045-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202045-1
Insight
Bob Clary, Dan Kaminsky and David Keeler discovered that in libtheora, a video library part of the Ogg project, several flaws allow allow context-dependent attackers via a large and specially crafted media file, to cause a denial of service (crash of the player using this library), and possibly arbitrary code execution.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~beta3-1+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.0-1.
For the testing distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.0-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libtheora packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-3389 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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