[ GLSA 200610-13 ] Cheese Tracker: Buffer Overflow

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: Cheese Tracker: Buffer Overflow (GLSA 200610-13)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: October 26, 2006
Bug(s): #142391
ID: 200610-13

Synopsis


Cheese Tracker contains a buffer overflow allowing the remote execution of
arbitrary code.


Background


Cheese Tracker is a Qt-based portable Impulse Tracker clone, a music
tracker for the CT, IT, XM and S3M file formats.


Affected Packages

Package: media-sound/cheesetracker
Vulnerable: < 0.9.9-r1
Unaffected: >= 0.9.9-r1
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description


Luigi Auriemma reported that the XM loader of Cheese Tracker contains a
buffer overflow vulnerability in the
loader_XM::load_intrument_internal() function from
loaders/loader_xm.cpp.


Impact


An attacker could execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user
running Cheese Tracker by enticing a user to load a crafted file with
large amount of extra data.


Workaround


There is no known workaround at this time.


Resolution


All Cheese Tracker users should upgrade to the latest version: