Executive Summary

Summary
Title Mednafen: Arbitrary code execution
Informations
Name GLSA-201311-01 First vendor Publication 2013-11-04
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2013-11-04
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:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

An unspecified vulnerability in Mednafen could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Mednafen is an advanced NES, GB/GBC/GBA, TurboGrafx 16/CD, NGPC and Lynx emulator.

Description

An unspecified vulnerability has been discovered in Mednafen when using network play.

Impact

A remote server could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Mednafen users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=games-emulation/mednafen-0.8.13"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-3085 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3085

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201311-01.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201311-01.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 30

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
67946 Mednafen Network Support Unspecified Remote Memory Corruption

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-11-05 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201311-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:37:51
  • Multiple Updates
2013-11-04 13:18:55
  • First insertion