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Secunia Advisory SA25089

Winamp MP4 File Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA25089
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2007-05-01
Last Update 2007-05-16
   
Popularity 31,641 views
Comments 0 comments

Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Secunia PoC Available in Customer Area
Secunia analysis Available in Customer Area
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Winamp 5.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-2498 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Marsu has reported a vulnerability in Winamp, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of MP4 files and can be exploited to cause memory corruption via a specially crafted MP4 file.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 5.34. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Update to version 5.35 or apply patch.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
Marsu

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
Nullsoft:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=269831#patch
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=2180629#post2180629
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=159785
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=270944

milw0rm:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/3823

Deep Links
Links available to Secunia VIM customers


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