full-disclosure - Secunia Research: Winamp NSV Table of Contents Parsing Integer Overflow

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Message-Id: <201012011516.oB1FGnqs013456@CA-IX-1.intnet>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:16:49 +0100
From: Secunia Research <remove-vuln@...unia.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Secunia Research: Winamp NSV Table of Contents
	Parsing Integer Overflow

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                     Secunia Research 30/11/2010

       - Winamp NSV Table of Contents Parsing Integer Overflow -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10

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1) Affected Software 

* Winamp 5.581
* Winamp 5.59 Beta Build 3033

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity 

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System compromise
Where:  Remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software 

"It is more than just a player. It's your window to the multimedia
world. From MP3s to streaming video, Winamp is the one place you go to
feed your audio/video habit.".

Product Link:
http://www.winamp.com/

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Winamp, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused by an integer overflow error in the
"in_nsv.dll" plugin when parsing the Table of Contents. This can be
exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially 
crafted NSV stream or file.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

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5) Solution 

Update to version 5.6.

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6) Time Table 

01/11/2010 - Vendor notified.
01/11/2010 - Vendor response.
30/11/2010 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits 

Discovered by Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned 
CVE-2010-2586 for the vulnerability.

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9) About Secunia

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10) Verification 

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-127/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

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