GLSA 201406-06: Mumble: Multiple vulnerabilities
Severity: | high |
Title: | Mumble: Multiple vulnerabilities |
Date: | 06/06/2014 |
Bugs: |
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ID: | 201406-06 |
Synopsis
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mumble, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.Background
Mumble is low-latency voice chat software intended for use with gaming.
Affected packages
Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
---|---|---|---|
media-sound/mumble | < 1.2.6 | >= 1.2.6 | All supported architectures |
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mumble:
- A crafted length prefix value can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow or NULL pointer dereference in the opus_packet_get_samples_per_frame function (CVE-2014-0044)
- A crafted packet can trigger an error in the opus_decode_float function, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2014-0045)
- A crafted SVG referencing local files can lead to resource exhaustion or hangs (CVE-2014-3755)
- Mumble does not properly escape HTML in some external strings before displaying them (CVE-2014-3756)
Impact
A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Mumble users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/mumble-1.2.6"
References
Availability
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Concerns?
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License
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