Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU21710

Input validation error in libopenmpt - CVE-2018-20861

Published: October 11, 2019

Vulnerability identifier: #VU21710

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20861

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can create certain malformed custom tunings in MPTM file, pass it to the affected application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Affected software

libopenmpt
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2018-20861

Install update from vendor's website.

libopenmpt - update to 0.3.11

External References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00084.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00085.html
https://lib.openmpt.org/libopenmpt/2018/07/28/security-updates-0.3.11-0.2.10635-beta34-0.2.7561-beta20.5-p10-0.2.7386-beta20.3-p13/

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