From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2006 - 06:17:05 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo mpg123 Heap Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20937

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20937/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Horst Schirmeier has reported a vulnerability in Gentoo's mpg123
package, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a Gentoo specific patch, which
fails to terminate strings properly. This can be exploited to cause a
heap-based buffer overflow by enticing a user into connecting to a
malicious server.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Update to "media-sound/mpg123-0.59s-r11" or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Horst Schirmeier

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200607-01.xml

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