SB2014041712 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Nullsoft Winamp

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SB2014041712 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Nullsoft Winamp

Published: April 17, 2014 Updated: August 10, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2014041712
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3442)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

Winamp 5.666 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a malformed .FLV file, related to f263.w5s.


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4694)

The vulnerability allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a package with a long Skin directory name. NOTE: a second buffer overflow involving a long GUI Search field to ml_local.dll was also reported.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

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