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TITLE:
Dolphin ELF Processing Memory Corruption Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39692

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39692/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Dolphin, which can be
exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when attempting to change
the byte order of values read from the header of an ELF file. This can
be exploited to corrupt arbitrary memory by tricking a user into
opening an ELF file having e.g. an overly large "e_phoff" header
field.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.0. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not open untrusted ELF files.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported as a crash by Pr0T3cT10n.

Additional information provided by Secunia Research.

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