Summary
The remote host is missing an update to libvorbis
announced via advisory USN-825-1.
Solution
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-2ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu 8.10:
libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-3.1ubuntu0.8.10.1
Ubuntu 9.04:
libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-3.1ubuntu0.9.04.1
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications that use libvorbis, such as Totem and gtkpod, to effect the necessary changes.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-825-1
Insight
It was discovered that libvorbis did not correctly handle certain malformed ogg files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted ogg file with an application that uses libvorbis, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2009-2663)
USN-682-1 provided updated libvorbis packages to fix multiple security vulnerabilities. The upstream security patch to fix CVE-2008-1420 introduced a regression when reading sound files encoded with libvorbis 1.0beta1. This update corrects the problem.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that libvorbis did not correctly handle certain malformed sound files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted sound file with an application that uses libvorbis, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2008-1420)
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2009-2663 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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