Advisories » MGASA-2016-0358

Updated mpg123 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 25 Oct 2016
Modification date: 25 Oct 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-1000247

Description

Jerold Hoong discovered a flaw in the id3 tag processing code of
libmpg123. A specially crafted mp3 input file could be used to cause a
buffer over-read, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2016-1000247).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19610
• http://www.mpg123.de/cgi-bin/news.cgi
• http://lwn.net/Alerts/703760/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1000247

SRPMS

5/core

• mpg123-1.20.1-4.1.mga5