Gentoo: GLSA-200607-13 Moderate: Audacious Multiple Heap Overflows
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July 29, 2006
The adplug library included in Audacious is vulnerable to various overflows that could result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
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
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The adplug library included in Audacious is vulnerable to various
overflows that could result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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Audacious is a media player that has been forked from Beep Media
Player.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-sound/audacious < 1.1.0 >= 1.1.0
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Luigi Auriemma has found that the adplug library fails to verify the
size of the destination buffers in the unpacking instructions,
re...
Resolution
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