Debian Security Advisory

DSA-411-1 mpg321 -- format string vulnerability

Date Reported:
05 Jan 2004
Affected Packages:
mpg321
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9364.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0969.
More information:

A vulnerability was discovered in mpg321, a command-line mp3 player, whereby user-supplied strings were passed to printf(3) unsafely. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to overwrite memory, and possibly execute arbitrary code. In order for this vulnerability to be exploited, mpg321 would need to play a malicious mp3 file (including via HTTP streaming).

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.10.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.10.3.

We recommend that you update your mpg321 package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mpg321/mpg321_0.2.10.2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.