Ringtone Tools: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background

Ringtone Tools is a program for creating ringtones and logos for mobile phones.

Description

Qiao Zhang has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ‘parse_emelody’ function in ‘parse_emelody.c’.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a Ringtone Tools user to open a specially crafted eMelody file, which would potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Ringtone Tools users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-mobilephone/ringtonetools-2.23"