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Gentoo: GLSA-200607-13 Moderate: Audacious Multiple Heap Overflows

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Calendar Grey July 29, 2006
Scroller Gentoo
Daring video player encounters critical heap and memory overflow issues, mandating prompt patches for protection on Arch Linux.
The adplug library included in Audacious is vulnerable to various overflows that could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200607-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Audacious: Multiple heap and buffer overflows Date: July 29, 2006 Bugs: #139957 ID: 200607-13

Synopsis ======= The adplug library included in Audacious is vulnerable to various overflows that could result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Audacious is a media player that has been forked from Beep Media Player.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-sound/audacious < 1.1.0 >= 1.1.0
========== Luigi Auriemma has found that the adplug library fails to verify the size of the destination buffers in the unpacking instructions, re...

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