10 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.092 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.7%
mpg123 Player is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900538");
script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:39+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:39 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-04-28 07:58:48 +0200 (Tue, 28 Apr 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1301");
script_name("mpg123 Player Denial of Service Vulnerability - Linux");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/34587");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34381");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0936");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("secpod_mpg123_detect_lin.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("mpg123/Linux/Ver");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"mpg123 Player prior to 1.7.2 on Linux.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This flaw is due to integer signedness error in the store_id3_text function
in the ID3v2 code when processing ID3v2 tags with negative encoding values.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 1.7.2.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"mpg123 Player is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will let the attacker trigger out of bounds
memory access and thus execute arbitrary code and possibly crash the
application.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
mpgVer = get_kb_item("mpg123/Linux/Ver");
if(!mpgVer)
exit(0);
if(version_is_less(version:mpgVer, test_version:"1.7.2")){
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:mpgVer, fixed_version:"1.7.2");
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
}