27884 : AlsaPlayer PlaylistWindow.cpp GTK Playlist Multiple Function Overflow
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2006-08-09

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-4089" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Multiple buffer overflows in Andy Lo-A-Foe AlsaPlayer 0.99.76 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), or have other unknown impact, via (1) a long Location field sent by a web server, which triggers an overflow in the reconnect function in reader/http/http.c; (2) a long URL sent by a web server when AlsaPlayer is seeking a media file for the playlist, which triggers overflows in new_list_item and CbUpdated in interface/gtk/PlaylistWindow.cpp; and (3) a long response sent by a CDDB server, which triggers an overflow in cddb_lookup in input/ccda/cdda_engine.c.

Classification

Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.99.77 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2006-4089 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 21422 21639 21749 22018
Related OSVDB ID: 27883 27885
Other Advisory URL: http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/alsapbof-adv.txt
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Sep/0001.html
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-08/0249.html
Vendor URL: http://www.alsaplayer.org/
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://www.alsaplayer.org/changelog.php3
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1179
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-24.xml

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-08-11 | Disagree?

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