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Winamp Ultravox Streaming Metadata Parsing Buffer Overflows
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA27865
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Release Date:
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2008-01-18
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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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| Software: | Winamp 5.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-0065 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in Winamp, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors in in_mp3.dll within the construction of stream titles when parsing Ultravox streaming metadata. This can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows via overly long "<artist>" and "<name>" tag values in the <metadata> section.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in versions 5.21, 5.5, and 5.51. Other versions may also be affected.
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Solution:
Update to version 5.52.
http://www.winamp.com/player
Provided and/or discovered by:
Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.
Original Advisory:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-2/
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