<?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 ">=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>