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Secunia Advisory SA33273

Audio File Library "ms_adpcm_decode_block()" Buffer Overflow
Secunia Advisory SA33273
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Release Date 2009-01-02
Last Update 2009-01-05
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact DoS
System access
Where From remote
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Solution Status Unpatched
   
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Software:
Audio File Library 0.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-5824 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
A vulnerability has been reported in Audio File Library, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "ms_adpcm_decode_block()" function in libaudiofile/modules/msadpcm.c. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted WAV file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 0.2.6. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Do not process untrusted files using the library.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported in a Debian bug report by Max Kellermann.

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Original Advisory
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510205

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