TITLE:
Kaffeine Player "http_peek()" Function Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19525

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19525/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Kaffeine Player 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4216/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the
"http_peek()" function when creating HTTP request headers for
retrieving remote playlists. This can be exploited to cause a buffer
overflow via a specially crafted remote playlist.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability affects versions 0.4.2 through 0.7.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.8.0 or apply patches.

Patch for version 0.4.x:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/kaffeine-0.4.x-CVE-2006-0051.patch

Patch for version 0.5.x:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/kaffeine-0.5.x-CVE-2006-0051.patch

Patch for version 0.7.x:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/kaffeine-0.7.x-CVE-2006-0051.patch

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Marcus Meissner.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
KDE:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060404-1.txt

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