The Debian Hack Shop

It was discovered that libfishsound, a simple programming interface that
wraps Xiph.Org audio codecs, didn’t correctly handle negative values in
a particular header field. This could allow malicious files to execute
arbitary code.

Read the full story: DSA-1584 libfishsound - buffer overflow: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1584

Tags: audio, Debian, DSA, Security

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