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Debian 3.0 DSA 411-1 Important: Mpg321 Remote Code Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey January 6, 2004
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A remote code execution vulnerability in mpg321 requires immediate updates to protect Debian systems.
A vulnerability was discovered in mpg321, a command-line mp3 player,whereby user-supplied strings were passed to printf(3) unsafely

Summary

A vulnerability was discovered in mpg321, a command-line mp3 player,
whereby user-supplied strings were passed to printf(3) unsafely. This
vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to overwrite
memory, and possibly execute arbitrary code. In order for this
vulnerability to be exploited, mpg321 would need to play a malicious
mp3 file (including via HTTP streaming).

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 0.2.10.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.2.10.3.

We recommend that you update your mpg321 package.

Upgrade Instructions
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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

You may use an automated update by adding the resources fr...

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Package: mpg321

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