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CVSSv2

CVE-2006-4089

Published: 11/08/2006 Updated: 17/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in Andy Lo-A-Foe AlsaPlayer 0.99.76 and previous versions allow remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash), or have other unknown impact, via (1) a long Location field sent by a web server, which triggers an overflow in the reconnect function in reader/http/http.c; (2) a long URL sent by a web server when AlsaPlayer is seeking a media file for the playlist, which triggers overflows in new_list_item and CbUpdated in interface/gtk/PlaylistWindow.cpp; and (3) a long response sent by a CDDB server, which triggers an overflow in cddb_lookup in input/ccda/cdda_engine.c.

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Vendor Advisories

Luigi Auriemma discovered several buffer overflows in alsaplayer, a PCM player designed for ALSA, that can lead to a crash of the application and maybe worse outcome For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 09976-03sarge1 For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon We recommend th ...

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/19450/info AlsaPlayer is prone to multiple buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because the application fails to check the size of the data before copying it into a finite-sized internal memory buffer An attacker can exploit these issues to execute arbitrary code within the context of the application or cause ...