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TITLE:
libfishsound Speex Header Processing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29727

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29727/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
libfishsound 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/18243/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in libfishsound, which can
potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise an
application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when
processing Speex headers, which can be exploited via a specially
crafted Speex stream containing a negative "modeID" field in the
header.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 0.9.0. Prior versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.9.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
An anonymous person, reported via oCERT.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
oCERT:
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-2.html

http://blog.kfish.org/2008/04/release-libfishsound-091.html

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