National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3879
Original release date:07/27/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in the loadChunk function in loaders/load_gt2.c in libmikmod in Mikmod Sound System 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a GRAOUMF TRACKER (GT2) module file with a large (0xffffffff) comment length value in an XCOM chunk.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/16/2006)
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This issue does not affect versions of Mikmod 3.2.0-beta2 or prior. Versions of Mikmod distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 are based on version 3.1.11 and are therefore not vulnerable to this issue.
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External Source: BID
Name: 19134
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060724 Heap overflow in the GT2 loader of libmikmod 3.2.2
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-2967
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21196
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://aluigi.org/poc/lmmgt2ho.zip
External Source: MISC
Name: http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/lmmgt2ho-adv.txt
Type: Advisory
External Source: SREASON
Name: 1288
