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Jelle van der Waa has announced the following two security update for Arch Linux:

ASA-201803-12: libvorbis: multiple issues
ASA-201803-13: firefox: arbitrary code execution



ASA-201803-12: libvorbis: multiple issues

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201803-12
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Severity: Critical
Date : 2018-03-16
CVE-ID : CVE-2017-14632 CVE-2017-14633 CVE-2018-5146
Package : libvorbis
Type : multiple issues
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-367

Summary
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The package libvorbis before version 1.3.6-1 is vulnerable to multiple
issues including arbitrary code execution and denial of service.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 1.3.6-1.

# pacman -Syu "libvorbis>=1.3.6-1"

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 1.3.6.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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- CVE-2017-14632 (arbitrary code execution)

fXiph.Org libvorbis before 1.3.6 allows remote code execution upon
freeing uninitialized memory in the function
vorbis_analysis_headerout() in info.c when vi->channels