>> AlsaPlayer Vorbis Plugin Data Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Title : AlsaPlayer Vorbis Plugin Data Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3393 CVE ID : CVE-2007-5301
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-10-08
Technical Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in AlsaPlayer, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. These issues are caused by buffer overflow errors in the "vorbis_stream_info()" [alsaplayer/input/vorbis/vorbis_engine.c] function when processing data read from a Vorbis file, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious OGG file.
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