SB2013022301 - Input validation error in Novell Opensuse
Published: February 23, 2013 Updated: August 11, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013022301
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-0899)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
Integer overflow in the padding implementation in the opus_packet_parse_impl function in src/opus_decoder.c in Opus before 1.0.2, as used in Google Chrome before 25.0.1364.97 on Windows and Linux and before 25.0.1364.99 on Mac OS X and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a long packet.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/02/stable-channel-update_21.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00045.html
- http://opus-codec.org/downloads/
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=160480
- https://codereview.chromium.org/11575026
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16027
- https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/deps/third_party/opus/src/opus_decoder.c?r1=173498&r2=173497&pathrev=173498
- https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=173498