Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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.
Affected
speex on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-1686 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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