USN-2730-1: OpenSLP vulnerabilities

3 September 2015

OpenSLP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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Georgi Geshev discovered that OpenSLP incorrectly handled processing
certain service requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause OpenSLP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-4428)

Qinghao Tang discovered that OpenSLP incorrectly handled processing certain
messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
OpenSLP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5177)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.04
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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