Title: mpg123 Incorrect Framesize Calculation Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
mpg123 is a MPEG audio player for Linux variant operating systems.
A memory corruption vulnerability has been reported for mpg123 that may result in code execution.
The vulnerability exists when mpg123 is used to play certain MP3 files. It has been reported that when playing MP3 files with a bitrate of zero, it may be possible to cause mpg123 to execute malicious attacker-supplied code.
This occurs because mpg123 will incorrectly allocate a negative value for a framesize buffer if the malformed MP3 file contains a bitrate of zero. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by creating a malicious MP3 file that has a bitrate value of 0. When mpg123 is used to play the malformed MP3 file, it will trigger the memory corruption condition which may result in code execution.
This vulnerability has been reported to affect both mpg123-pre0.59s and mpg123-0.59r.
Affected Products:
- Conectiva Linux 7.0.0
- Conectiva Linux 8.0.0
- Debian Linux 3.0.0
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 sparc
- Gentoo Linux
- Gentoo Linux 1.4.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.0.0 amd64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.1.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.1.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 9.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 9.1.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 9.1.0 ppc
- mpg123 mpg123 0.59.0 r
- mpg123 mpg123 pre0.59s
References:
- mpg123: mpg123 Home Page
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