In mpg123 1.25.0, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the convert_latin1 function in libmpg123/id3.c. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Update to upstream release 1.25.6

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This update for mpg123 to version 1.25.7 fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2017-10683: Improvement over previous fix for xrpnt     overflow problems (boo#1046766)

The following changes are also included in version 1.25.7 :

  - Do not play with cursor and inverse video for progress     bar when TERM=dumb

  - Fix parsing of host port for numerical IPv6 addresses

It was discovered that there was a remote denial of service vulnerability in the mpg123 audio library/player. This was caused by a heap-based buffer over-read in the 'convert_latin1' function.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in mpg123 version 1.14.4-1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your mpg123 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
105818	Fedora 27 : mpg123 (2017-12794057a6)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
103763	openSUSE Security Update : mpg123 (openSUSE-2017-1139)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
103540	Fedora 25 : mpg123 (2017-172410ec92)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
103366	Fedora 26 : mpg123 (2017-c89d94d812)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
101318	Debian DLA-1017-1 : mpg123 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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