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Debian: DSA-2415-1 Moderate: Libmodplug Buffer Overflows Exploit Risk

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2012
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Several vulnerabilities that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code have been discovered in libmodplug, a library for mod music based on ModPlug

Summary

Several vulnerabilities that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code
have been discovered in libmodplug, a library for mod music based on
ModPlug. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies
the following issues:

CVE-2011-1761

epiphant discovered that the abc file parser is vulnerable to several
stack-based buffer overflows that potentially lead to the execution
of arbitrary code.

CVE-2011-2911

Hossein Lotfi of Secunia discovered that the CSoundFile::ReadWav
function is vulnerable to an integer overflow which leads to a
heap-based buffer overflow. An attacker can exploit this flaw to
potentially execute arbitrary code by tricking a victim into opening
crafted WAV files.

CVE-2011-2912

Hossein Lotfi of Secunia discovered that the CSoundFile::ReadS3M
function is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker
can exploit this flaw to potentially execute arbitrary code by
tricking a victim into opening crafted S3M files.

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Package: libmodplug
CVE ID: CVE-2011-1761 CVE-2011-2911 CVE-2011-2912 CVE-2011-2913

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