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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200605-14">
  <title>libextractor: Two heap-based buffer overflows</title>
  <synopsis>
    libextractor is vulnerable to two heap overflow vulnerabilities which could
    lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libextractor</product>
  <announced>2006-05-21</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-05-21</revised>
  <bug>133570</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-libs/libextractor" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.5.14</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.5.14</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    libextractor is a library used to extract metadata from arbitrary
    files.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Luigi Auriemma has found two heap-based buffer overflows in
    libextractor 0.5.13 and earlier: one of them occurs in the
    asf_read_header function in the ASF plugin, and the other occurs in the
    parse_trak_atom function in the Qt plugin.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By enticing a user to open a malformed file using an application
    that employs libextractor and its ASF or Qt plugins, an attacker could
    execute arbitrary code in the context of the application running the
    affected library.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All libextractor users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-libs/libextractor-0.5.14"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2458">CVE-2006-2458</uri>
    <uri link="http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/libextho-adv.txt">Original advisory</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-05-19T13:49:39Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-05-19T13:49:51Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-05-19T16:16:14Z">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>