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Secunia Advisory SA10544

mpg321 Remotely Exploitable Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA10544

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Release Date

2004-01-06

Popularity

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Unpatched

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Remediation status

Secunia VIM

Software:

mpg321 0.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2003-0969 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in mpg321, allowing malicious people to execute arbitrary code.

The problem is that certain strings in mp3 files aren't properly verified before being used in a "printf()" function call. This could potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code through malicious mp3 files and HTTP streams.

Solution
No update is a available; use a different product.

Deep Links
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