<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200903-34"> <title>Amarok: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title> <synopsis> Multiple vulnerabilities in Amarok might allow for user-assisted execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">amarok</product> <announced>2009-03-20</announced> <revised count="01">2009-03-20</revised> <bug>254896</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="media-sound/amarok" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.4.10-r2</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.10-r2</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Amarok is an advanced music player. </p> </background> <description> <p> Tobias Klein has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Amarok: </p> <ul> <li>Multiple integer overflows in the Audible::Tag::readTag() function in metadata/audible/audibletag.cpp trigger heap-based buffer overflows (CVE-2009-0135).</li> <li>Multiple array index errors in the Audible::Tag::readTag() function in metadata/audible/audibletag.cpp can lead to invalid pointer dereferences, or the writing of a 0x00 byte to an arbitrary memory location after an allocation failure (CVE-2009-0136).</li> </ul> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Audible Audio (.aa) file with a large "nlen" or "vlen" tag value to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Amarok users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/amarok-1.4.10-r2"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0135">CVE-2009-0135</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0136">CVE-2009-0136</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-03-19T13:02:32Z"> a3li </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-03-20T19:39:32Z"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-03-20T19:54:30Z"> keytoaster </metadata> </glsa>