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From: Raphael Marichez <falco@g.o>
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Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200610-13 ] Cheese Tracker: Buffer Overflow
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:34:52
Message-Id: 20061026221204.GA22133@falco.falcal.net
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200610-13
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7 Severity: Normal
8 Title: Cheese Tracker: Buffer Overflow
9 Date: October 26, 2006
10 Bugs: #142391
11 ID: 200610-13
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15 Synopsis
16 ========
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18 Cheese Tracker contains a buffer overflow allowing the remote execution
19 of arbitrary code.
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21 Background
22 ==========
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24 Cheese Tracker is a Qt-based portable Impulse Tracker clone, a music
25 tracker for the CT, IT, XM and S3M file formats.
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27 Affected packages
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31 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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33 1 media-sound/cheesetracker < 0.9.9-r1 >= 0.9.9-r1
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35 Description
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38 Luigi Auriemma reported that the XM loader of Cheese Tracker contains a
39 buffer overflow vulnerability in the
40 loader_XM::load_intrument_internal() function from
41 loaders/loader_xm.cpp.
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43 Impact
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46 An attacker could execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user
47 running Cheese Tracker by enticing a user to load a crafted file with
48 large amount of extra data.
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50 Workaround
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53 There is no known workaround at this time.
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55 Resolution
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58 All Cheese Tracker users should upgrade to the latest version:
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60 # emerge --sync
61 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/cheesetracker-0.9.9-r1"
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63 References
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66 [ 1 ] CVE-2006-3814
67 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3814
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69 Availability
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72 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
73 the Gentoo Security Website:
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75 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-13.xml
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77 Concerns?
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80 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
81 confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
82 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
83 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
84 http://bugs.gentoo.org.
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86 License
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89 Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
90 belongs to its owner(s).
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92 The contents of this document are licensed under the
93 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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95 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5