mpg123 up to 1.32.7 Frankenstein's Monster buffer overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in mpg123 up to 1.32.7. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in buffer overflow. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-10573. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in mpg123 up to 1.32.7. This affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in mpg123 when handling crafted streams. When decoding PCM, the libmpg123 may write past the end of a heap-located buffer. Consequently, heap corruption may happen, and arbitrary code execution is not discarded. The complexity required to exploit this flaw is considered high as the payload must be validated by the MPEG decoder and the PCM synth before execution. Additionally, to successfully execute the attack, the user must scan through the stream, making web live stream content (such as web radios) a very unlikely attack vector.

It is possible to read the advisory at seclists.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-10573. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 210748 (Debian dsa-5811 : libmpg123-0 - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.32.8 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at mpg123.org.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (210748). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• mpg123

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• 1.32.0
• 1.32.1
• 1.32.2
• 1.32.3
• 1.32.4
• 1.32.5
• 1.32.6
• 1.32.7

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