glsa-201702-25.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201702-25">
  <title>libass: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libass, the worst of
    which have unknown impacts.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libass</product>
  <announced>2017-02-20</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-02-20</revised>
  <bug>596422</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-libs/libass" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.13.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.13.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA (Advanced
      Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha) subtitle format.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libass. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or other
      unknown impacts via unknown attack vectors.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All libass users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-libs/libass-0.13.4"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7969">CVE-2016-7969</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7970">CVE-2016-7970</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7971">CVE-2016-7971</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7972">CVE-2016-7972</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-02-05T23:35:59Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-02-20T23:46:16Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>