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Posted on 22 March 2007
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Secunia Research 21/03/2007
- XMMS Integer Overflow and Underflow Vulnerabilities -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10
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1) Affected Software
* xmms 1.2.10 (Linux)
NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: Remote
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3) Vendor's Description of Software
"XMMS is a multimedia player for unix systems. XMMS stands for X
MultiMedia System and can play media files such as MP3, MOD's, WAV and
others with the use of Input plugins."
Product Link:
http://www.xmms.org
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4) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in XMMS, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
1) An integer underflow error exists in the processing of skin bitmap
images. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow
via specially crafted skin images containing manipulated header
information.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
2) An integer overflow error exists in the processing of skin bitmap
images. This can be exploited to cause memory corruption via specially
crafted skin images containing manipulated header information.
Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code.
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5) Solution
Do not install skins from untrusted sources.
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6) Time Table
06/02/2007 - Vendor notified (Red Hat and the vendor-sec list).
06/02/2007 - Vendor response.
21/03/2007 - Public disclosure.
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7) Credits
Discovered by Sven Krewitt, Secunia Research.
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8) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
the following CVE identifiers for the vulnerabilities:
* CVE-2007-0653 (integer overflow)
* CVE-2007-0654 (integer underflow)
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9) About Secunia
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10) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-47/
Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/
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