Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-2995 lzo2 - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
Don A. Bailey from Lab Mouse Security discovered an integer overflowflaw in the way the lzo library decompressed certain archives compressedwith the LZO algorithm. An attacker could create a specially craftedLZO-compressed input that, when decompressed by an application using thelzo library, would cause that application to crash or, potentially,execute arbitrary code.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2995