National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5824
Original release date:01/02/2009
Last revised:02/26/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Heap-based buffer overflow in msadpcm.c in libaudiofile in audiofile 0.2.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted WAV file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
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:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (02/11/2009)
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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=479966
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: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0005
External Source: BID
Name: 33066
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33273
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081230 CVE id request: audiofile
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1915
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:003
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510205