OSVDB ID: 24974

Title: abcMIDI ABC Music File Handling Overflow

Info

Disclosure

Apr 26, 2006

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Description

A local overflow exists in abcMIDI. The product fails to limit the bytes read by sscanf in drawtune.c and yapstree.c resulting in a buffer overflow. With a specially crafted .ABC file, an attacker can cause the program to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code resulting in a loss of integrity or availability for the program.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity, Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Debian users should upgrade to version 17-1woody1 or 20050101-1sarge1 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds. For other users, currently there are no known upgrades, patches, or workarounds available to correct this issue.

Products

James Allwright

abcMIDI

17

Seymour Shlien

abcMIDI

20050101
20051010

Debian

abcMIDI

17-1
20051010-1
17-1woody1
20050101-1sarge1
20050101-1

References

Credit

  • Erik Sjölund -


Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/24974