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mpg123 Mpeg Layer-2 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA13779
Release Date: 2005-01-11
Last Update: 2007-05-03
Popularity: 13,449 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:mpg123 0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Yuri D'Elia has reported a vulnerability in mpg123, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the parsing of frame headers for layer-2 streams. This may be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted MP2 or MP3 file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user executing mpg123.

This is related to:
SA12478

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.59r. Other versions may also be affected.

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