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mpg123 Player Denial of Service Vulnerability (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
Critical
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
10.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
14 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
This host is running mpg123 Player which is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
This flaw is due to integer signedness error in the store_id3_text function in the ID3v2 code when processing ID3v2 tags with negative encoding values.
Affected Software
Affected Software
mpg123 Player prior to 1.7.2 on Linux.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 1.7.2.