USN-2780-2: MiniUPnP vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2780-2

23rd October, 2015

miniupnpc vulnerability

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

  • Ubuntu 15.10

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

USN-2780-1 fixed a vulnerability in the MiniUPnP library in Ubuntu
12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 15.04. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 15.10.

Original advisory 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 15.10:
libminiupnpc10

1.9.20140610-2ubuntu2

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.

References

CVE-2015-6031

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