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[DSA1123] DSA-1123-1 libdumb

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-1123-1 libdumb

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Luigi Auriemma discovered that DUMB, a tracker music library, performs
insufficient sanitising of values parsed from IT music files, which might
lead to a buffer overflow and execution of arbitrary code if manipulated
files are read.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.2-6.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.3-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your libdumb packages.


Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1123
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

Telephone Systems, Telecom

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