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mpg123 Audio Streaming Service Buffer Overflow
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA9836
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Release Date:
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2003-09-24
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Last Update:
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2007-05-03
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Popularity:
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9,488 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | mpg123 0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2003-0865
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in mpg123, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The problem is that mpg123 continues to read data into a request buffer until a newline ("\n") is encountered when connecting to remote hosts using HTTP and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions 0.59r and 0.59s.
Solution:
Update to version 0.65.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Vade 79
Changelog:
2003-11-13: Added CVE reference.
2007-05-03: Updated "Solution" and "Solution Status" sections to reflect fix information.
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