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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:02:15 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
Subject: Re: CVE request: opus codec before 1.0.2

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On 12/11/2012 05:32 AM, Hanno Böck wrote:
> http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/opus/2012-December/001846.html
> 
> sounds like a low-severity security issue:
> 
> "Opus 1.0.2 fixes an out-of-bounds read that could be triggered by
> a malicious Opus packet by causing an integer wrap-around in the
> padding code. Considering that the packet would have to be at least
> 16 MB in size and that no out-of-bounds write is possible, the
> severity is very low."
> 
> Fixed in opus 1.0.2.

What's the security impact? does the service crash?

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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