USN-887-1: LibThai vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• libthai -

Details

Tim Starling discovered that LibThai did not correctly handle long strings.
A remote attacker could use specially-formed strings to execute arbitrary
code with the user's privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

• libthai0 - 0.1.12-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 9.04

• libthai0 - 0.1.9-4ubuntu0.9.04.2

Ubuntu 8.10

• libthai0 - 0.1.9-4ubuntu0.8.10.2

Ubuntu 8.04

• libthai0 - 0.1.9-1ubuntu0.2

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-4012