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libfishsound Speex Header Processing Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29727
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Release Date:
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2008-04-08
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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: | libfishsound 0.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-1686 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in libfishsound, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.
The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when processing Speex headers, which can be exploited via a specially crafted Speex stream containing a negative "modeID" field in the header.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability is reported in version 0.9.0. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 0.9.1.
Provided and/or discovered by:
An anonymous person, reported via oCERT.
Original Advisory:
oCERT:
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-2.html
http://blog.kfish.org/2008/04/release-libfishsound-091.html
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