GLSA 200607-13: Audacious: Multiple heap and buffer overflows

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Audacious: Multiple heap and buffer overflows
Date:	07/29/2006
Bugs:	#139957
ID:	200607-13

Synopsis

The adplug library included in Audacious is vulnerable to various overflows that could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Audacious is a media player that has been forked from Beep Media Player.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
media-sound/audacious	< 1.1.0	>= 1.1.0	All supported architectures

Description

Luigi Auriemma has found that the adplug library fails to verify the size of the destination buffers in the unpacking instructions, resulting in various possible heap and buffer overflows.

Impact

An attacker can entice a user to load a specially crafted media file, resulting in a crash or possible execution of arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Audacious users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/audacious-1.1.0"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-13.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.