19892 : xine/gxine xine-lib CDDB Response Format String
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2005-10-08

Description

xine-lib contains a flaw that may allow remote execution of arbitrary code. The issue is triggered when a xine-lib based media application, such as xine or gxine, retrieves improper metadata from a malicious CDDB server while playing an audio CD. The metadata is placed in memory on the stack and eventually passed to a fprintf() function as a format string. This allows the malicious user to alter the control flow and to execute malicious code with the permissions of the user running the application.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access, Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.0.3 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. In addition, the creditee and the vendor released a patch for some older versions.

It is also possible to correct the issue by implementing the following workaround: delete the file "xineplug_inp_cdda.so" from the xine-lib plugin directory. You will lose the ability to play audio CDs.

Products

xine-Project	xine-lib	0.9.13
		1.0
		1.0.1
		1.0.2
		1.1.0

References

Milw0rm: 1242
Exploit Database: 1242
Bugtraq ID: 15044
Secunia Advisory ID: 17097 17099 17111 17132 17162 17179 17282
CVE ID: 2005-2967 (see also: NVD)
ISS X-Force ID: 22545
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0196.html
Generic Exploit URL: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/att-0196/xine-cddb-server.pl
Other Solution URL: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/att-0196/xine-lib.formatstring.patch
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xine/xine-lib/src/input/input_cdda.c?r1=1.77&r2=1.78&diff_format=u
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://frontal1.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:180
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2005-Oct/0007.html
http://xinehq.de/index.php/security/XSA-2005-1
Other Advisory URL: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.415454
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-863
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-08.xml
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-196-1

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Ulf Härnhammar - Swedish IT Incident Centre

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-10-14 | Disagree?

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