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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5146: libvorbis out-of-bounds write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5146: libvorbis out-of-bounds write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/11/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
07/31/2018
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

An out of bounds memory write while processing Vorbis audio data was reported through the Pwn2Own contest. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 59.0.1, Firefox ESR < 52.7.2, and Thunderbird < 52.7.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libvorbis

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