National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0179
Original release date:01/20/2009
Last revised:03/21/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
libmikmod 3.1.11 through 3.2.0, as used by MikMod and possibly other products, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by loading an XM file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (01/21/2009)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-0179
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security
impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding
issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479833
External Source: BID
Name: 33240
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34259
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20090113 CVE Request -- libmikmod
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:006
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476339