USN-562-1: opal vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• opal -

Details

Jose Miguel Esparza discovered that certain SIP headers were not correctly
validated. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted packet to
an application linked against opal (e.g. Ekiga) causing it to crash, leading
to a denial of service.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.04

• libopal-2.2.0 - 2.2.3.dfsg-2ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 6.10

• libopal-2.2.0 - 2.2.3.dfsg-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• libopal-2.2.0 - 2.2.1-1ubuntu1.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2007-4924