GLSA 200610-13: Cheese Tracker: Buffer Overflow

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Cheese Tracker: Buffer Overflow
Date:	10/26/2006
Bugs:	#142391
ID:	200610-13

Synopsis

Cheese Tracker contains a buffer overflow allowing the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Cheese Tracker is a Qt-based portable Impulse Tracker clone, a music tracker for the CT, IT, XM and S3M file formats.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
media-sound/cheesetracker	< 0.9.9-r1	>= 0.9.9-r1	All supported architectures

Description

Luigi Auriemma reported that the XM loader of Cheese Tracker contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the loader_XM::load_intrument_internal() function from loaders/loader_xm.cpp.

Impact

An attacker could execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running Cheese Tracker by enticing a user to load a crafted file with large amount of extra data.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Cheese Tracker users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/cheesetracker-0.9.9-r1"

References

CVE-2006-3814

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-13.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.