Executive Summary

Summary
Title FAAD2: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name GLSA-200811-03 First vendor Publication 2008-11-09
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-11-09
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A buffer overflow in FAAD2 might lead to user-assisted execution of arbitrary code via an MP4 file.

Background

FAAD2 is an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC decoder.

Description

The ICST-ERCIS (Peking University) reported a heap-based buffer overflow in the decodeMP4file() function in frontend/main.c.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted MPEG-4 (MP4) file in an application using FAAD2, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All FAAD2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/faad2-2.6.1-r2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-4201 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4201

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-03.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-03.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-11-19 Name : FreeBSD Ports: faad2
File : nvt/freebsd_faad2.nasl
2008-11-19 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200811-03 (faad2)
File : nvt/glsa_200811_03.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
48490 Faad2 frontend/main.c decodeMP4file() Function Crafted MPEG-4 File Handling O...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-11-13 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_445ed958b0d911dda55e00163e000016.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-11 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200811-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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