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Debian Lenny: DSA-1850-1 Critical: Libmodplug Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 4, 2009
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Multiple security flaws in libmodplug addressed by updating to patched versions for Debian platforms.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in libmodplug, the shared libraries for mod music based on ModPlug

Summary

CVE-2009-1438

It was discovered that libmodplug is prone to an integer overflow when
processing a MED file with a crafted song comment or song name.

CVE-2009-1513

It was discovered that libmodplug is prone to a buffer overflow in the
PATinst function, when processing a long instrument name.


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:0.8.4-1+lenny1.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:0.7-5.2+etch1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:0.8.7-1.


We recommend that you upgrade your libmodplug packages.


Upgrade instructions
- --------------------

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

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