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Message-ID: <20081203190307.GF21497@ngolde.de>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 20:03:07 +0100
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, coley@...re.org
Cc: redpig@...rt.org
Subject: Re: xine-lib and ocert-2008-008
Hi,
* Steven M. Christey <coley@...us.mitre.org> [2008-11-26 09:27]:
[...]
> ======================================================
> Name: CVE-2008-5248
> Status: Candidate
> URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5248
> Reference: CONFIRM:http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=619869
>
> xine-lib before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
> service (crash) via "MP3 files with metadata consisting only of
> separators."
http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib?cmd=changeset;node=60ab5d2bdd82
This is the corresponding upstream patch.
139 i = len - 1;
140
141 while ((i >= 0) && ((unsigned char)str[i] <= 32)) {
142 str[i] = 0;
143 i--;
144 }
If len is size_t this is the problematic code if i len is 0 this will result in
a 0 bytes written all over the memory because of integer promotion.
Cheers
Nico
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