Package : mpg123 Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-1655 BugTraq ID : 17365 Debian Bug : 361863
A. Alejandro Hernández discovered a vulnerability in mpg123, a command-line player for MPEG audio files. Insufficient validation of MPEG 2.0 layer 3 files results in several buffer overflows.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.59r-20sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.59r-22.
We recommend that you upgrade your mpg123 packages.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------