USN-8019-1: tracker-miners vulnerabilities

Publication date

5 February 2026

Overview

tracker-miners could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.


Packages

Details

Fatih Çelik discovered that tracker-miners incorrectly handled certain
malformed MP3 files. An attacker could use this issue to cause
tracker-miners to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code.

Fatih Çelik discovered that tracker-miners incorrectly handled certain
malformed MP3 files. An attacker could use this issue to cause
tracker-miners to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
25.10 questing tracker-extract –  3.8.2-4ubuntu2.1
24.04 LTS noble tracker-extract –  3.7.1-1ubuntu0.1
22.04 LTS jammy tracker-extract –  3.3.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.4

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