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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:29:32 +0100
From: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: kseifried@...hat.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: opus codec before 1.0.2

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On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:02:15 -0700
Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:

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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?

I don't know any details, just read the release announcement and it
sounded security relevant.

This is the commit:
http://git.xiph.org/?p=opus.git;a=commit;h=466c879a063e77941b95a6a0298905ba707667ac

Sorry, I don't know more.

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