Ubuntu Security Notice USN-735-1 March 16, 2009========================================================== gst-plugins-base0.10 vulnerability CVE-2009-0586 ========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 8.10
This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
It was discovered that the Base64 decoding functions in GStreamer Base Plugins did not properly handle large images in Vorbis file tags. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted Vorbis file, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.