Winamp < 5.58 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5597

Synopsis

The remote host has a media player installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.

Description

The remote host is running Winamp, a media player for Windows.

Versions of Winamp earlier than 5.58 are potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

- A stack-based buffer overflow when loading a malformed whatsnew.txt file.

- A stack-based buffer overflow when parsing VP6 video content.

An attacker, exploiting these flaws, can execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application.

Solution

Upgrade to Winamp version 5.58 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5597

Family: Generic

Published: 7/13/2010

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 47717

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2010

Reference Information

BID: 41591

Detections

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