Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1017-1 mpg123 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
08 Jul 2017
Affected Packages:
mpg123
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-10683.
More information:

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.