USN-445-1: XMMS vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06
• Ubuntu 5.10

Details

Sven Krewitt of Secunia Research discovered that XMMS did not correctly
handle BMP images when loading GUI skins. If a user were tricked into
loading a specially crafted skin, a remote attacker could execute
arbitrary code with user privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.10

• xmms - 1.2.10+cvs20060429-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• xmms - 1.2.10+cvs20050809-4ubuntu5.1

Ubuntu 5.10

• xmms - 1.2.10+cvs20050209-2ubuntu2.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart XMMS or reboot your
computer to effect the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2007-0653
• CVE-2007-0654