gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200409-20.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200409-20">
  <title>mpg123: Buffer overflow vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    mpg123 decoding routines contain a buffer overflow bug that might
    lead to arbitrary code execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mpg123</product>
  <announced>2004-09-16</announced>
  <revised count="01">2004-09-16</revised>
  <bug>63079</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-sound/mpg123" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.59s-r4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">0.59s-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    mpg123 is a MPEG Audio Player.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    mpg123 contains a buffer overflow in the code that handles layer2
    decoding of media files.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker can possibly exploit this bug with a specially-crafted mp3 or mp2 file
    to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running mpg123.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All mpg123 users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync

    # emerge -pv "&gt;=media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r4"
    # emerge "&gt;=media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r4"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/374433/2004-09-05/2004-09-11/0">BugTraq Announcement</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0805">CAN-2004-0805</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-09-14T21:37:49Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-09-15T15:59:24Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2004-09-15T18:43:15Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>