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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8019-1
February 05, 2026

tracker-miners vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 25.10
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Summary:

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

Software Description:
- tracker-miners: Metadata database, indexer and search tool

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.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 25.10
  tracker-extract                 3.8.2-4ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  tracker-extract                 3.7.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  tracker-extract                 3.3.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.4

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

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8019-1
  CVE-2026-1764, CVE-2026-1765, CVE-2026-1766, CVE-2026-1767

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker-miners/3.8.2-4ubuntu2.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker-miners/3.7.1-1ubuntu0.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker-miners/3.3.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.4

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