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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-04 |
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Severity: Normal |
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Title: Kaffeine: Buffer overflow |
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Date: April 05, 2006 |
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Bugs: #127326 |
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ID: 200604-04 |
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Synopsis |
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Kaffeine is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the |
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execution of arbitrary code. |
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Background |
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Kaffeine is a graphical front-end for the xine-lib multimedia library. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 media-video/kaffeine < 0.7.1-r2 >= 0.7.1-r2 |
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Description |
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Kaffeine uses an unchecked buffer when fetching remote RAM playlists |
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via HTTP. |
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Impact |
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A remote attacker could entice a user to play a specially-crafted RAM |
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playlist resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the |
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permissions of the user running the application. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All Kaffeine users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/kaffeine-0.7.1-r2" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2006-0051 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0051 |
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[ 2 ] KDE Security Advisory: Kaffeine buffer overflow |
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http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060404-1.txt |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200604-04.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 |