A vulnerability was found in Mathi PEamp 1.02b and classified as very critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file amp.exe. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Buffer overflow in amp.exe in Brothersoft PEamp 1.02b allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a .m3u playlist file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

The weakness was shared 07/08/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2009-2384 since 07/08/2009. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/18/2018).

A public exploit has been developed by ThE g0bL!N and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 7 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (51479) and Exploit-DB (9061).

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• Mathi

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• PEamp

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• 1.02b

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