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AlsaPlayer Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21422
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Release Date:
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2006-08-10
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Last Update:
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2007-02-12
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Popularity:
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6,071 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | AlsaPlayer 0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-4089
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Description:
Luigi Auriemma has reported some vulnerabilities in AlsaPlayer, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
1) A boundary error exists in the "reconnect()" function in reader/http/http.c during the handling of HTTP connections. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when receiving a specially crafted "Location" HTTP response header.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that the client connect to a malicious server.
2) A boundary error in the functions used for adding items to the playlist can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via e.g. an overly long URL.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that the GTK interface is used.
3) Two boundary errors exist in the "cddb_lookup()" function in input/ccda/cdda_engine.c when performing a query to a CDDB server. This can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows when receiving a specially crafted CDDB response.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code when querying a malicious CDDB server.
The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 0.99.76. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 0.99.77.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Luigi Auriemma
Changelog:
2006-08-21: Added CVE reference.
2007-02-12: Updated "Solution" section.
Original Advisory:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/alsapbof-adv.txt
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