Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for libcdaudio. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for libcdaudio
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34353
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34353/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for libcdaudio. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise an application using the library.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
function "cddb_read_disc_data()" in src/cddb.c, which can be
exploited cause a heap-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking an
application using the library into processing a specially crafted
CDDB entry.
SOLUTION:
Update to "media-libs/libcdaudio-0.99.12-r1" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
GLSA-200903-31:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200903-31.xml
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