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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900538
Category:Denial of Service
Title:mpg123 Player Denial of Service Vulnerability - Linux
Summary:mpg123 Player is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
mpg123 Player is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
This flaw is due to integer signedness error in the store_id3_text function
in the ID3v2 code when processing ID3v2 tags with negative encoding values.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation will let the attacker trigger out of bounds
memory access and thus execute arbitrary code and possibly crash the
application.

Affected Software/OS:
mpg123 Player prior to 1.7.2 on Linux.

Solution:
Update to version 1.7.2.

CVSS Score:
10.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-1301
BugTraq ID: 34381
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34381
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200904-15.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:093
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20090405211856.41696433%40sunscreen.local
http://secunia.com/advisories/34587
http://secunia.com/advisories/34748
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0936
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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