Title : AOL Winamp Lyrics3 and Ultravox Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4196 CVE ID : CVE-2006-5567
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-10-26
Technical Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in AOL Winamp, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system.
The first issue is due to a buffer overflow error in the Ultravox protocol handler when processing the "ultravox-max-msg" header, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a specially crafted playlist or a malicious "shout:" or "uvox:" URI.
The second flaw is due to a buffer overflow error when handling malformed Lyrics3 tags, which could be exploited by malicious web sites to execute arbitrary commands via a specially crafted playlist or a malicious "shout:" or "uvox:" URI.
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