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From: Matthias Geerdsen <vorlon@g.o>
To: gentoo-announce@g.o
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Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200607-13 ] Audacious: Multiple heap and buffer overflows
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:40:44
Message-Id: 44CB8A9A.9090902@gentoo.org
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200607-13
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7 Severity: Normal
8 Title: Audacious: Multiple heap and buffer overflows
9 Date: July 29, 2006
10 Bugs: #139957
11 ID: 200607-13
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15 Synopsis
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18 The adplug library included in Audacious is vulnerable to various
19 overflows that could result in the execution of arbitrary code.
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21 Background
22 ==========
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24 Audacious is a media player that has been forked from Beep Media
25 Player.
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27 Affected packages
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31 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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33 1 media-sound/audacious < 1.1.0 >= 1.1.0
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35 Description
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38 Luigi Auriemma has found that the adplug library fails to verify the
39 size of the destination buffers in the unpacking instructions,
40 resulting in various possible heap and buffer overflows.
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42 Impact
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45 An attacker can entice a user to load a specially crafted media file,
46 resulting in a crash or possible execution of arbitrary code.
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48 Workaround
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51 There is no known workaround at this time.
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53 Resolution
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56 All Audacious users should upgrade to the latest version:
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58 # emerge --sync
59 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/audacious-1.1.0"
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61 References
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64 [ 1 ] BugTraq Announcement
65 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439432/30/0/threaded
66 [ 2 ] CVE-2006-3581
67 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3581
68 [ 3 ] CVE-2006-3582
69 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3582
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71 Availability
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74 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
75 the Gentoo Security Website:
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77 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-13.xml
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79 Concerns?
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82 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
83 confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
84 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
85 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
86 http://bugs.gentoo.org.
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88 License
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91 Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
92 belongs to its owner(s).
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94 The contents of this document are licensed under the
95 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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97 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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