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Debian DSA-1074-1 : mpg123 - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22616

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A. Alejandro Hernandez discovered a vulnerability in mpg123, a command-line player for MPEG audio files. Insufficient validation of MPEG 2.0 layer 3 files results in several buffer overflows.

Solution

Upgrade the mpg123 packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.59r-20sarge1.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361863

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1074

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22616

File Name: debian_DSA-1074.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mpg123, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1655

BID: 17365

DSA: 1074