Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Faad2, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Faad2 "decodeMP4file()" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32006
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32006/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Faad2 2.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/19939/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Faad2, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
"decodeMP4file()" function in frontend/main.c. This can be exploited
to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted MPEG-4
file.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability is reported in version 2.6.1. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Apply vendor patch.
http://www.audiocoding.com/patch/main_overflow.diff
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits ICST-ERCIS, Peking University.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.audiocoding.com/archive.html
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