Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2780-1
20th October, 2015
miniupnpc vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 15.04
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
An application using the MiniUPnP library could be made to crash or
run programs as your login if it received specially crafted network
traffic.
Software description
- miniupnpc
– UPnP IGD client lightweight library
Details
Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the
XML parser functionality of the MiniUPnP library. A remote attacker
could use this to cause a denial of service (application crash) or
possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user running
an application that uses the MiniUPnP library.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 15.04:
-
libminiupnpc10
1.9.20140610-2ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
libminiupnpc8
1.6-3ubuntu2.14.04.2
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
libminiupnpc8
1.6-3ubuntu1.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart applications using
the MiniUPnP library to make all the necessary changes.