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Gentoo mpg123 Heap Overflow Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA20937
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Release Date:
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2006-07-04
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Last Update:
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2006-07-11
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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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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| OS: | Gentoo Linux 1.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2006-3355 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Horst Schirmeier has reported a vulnerability in Gentoo's mpg123 package, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a Gentoo specific patch, which fails to terminate strings properly. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by enticing a user into connecting to a malicious server.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
Solution:
Update to "media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r11" or later.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Horst Schirmeier
Changelog:
2006-07-11: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200607-01.xml
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