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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:25:39 +0100
From: Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: libcdaudio

Hello Tomas,

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:25:26PM +0100, Tomas Hoger wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:07:23 +0100 Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > we need a CVE-ID for a buffer overflow in libcdaudio.
> > It is a remotely exploitable heap-based buffer overflow.
...

> Additionally, if you are shipping libcdaudio, you may be interested in
> patch for CVE-2005-0706 used by Gentoo:
> 
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/media-libs/libcdaudio/files/libcdaudio-0.99-CAN-2005-0706.patch
> 
> According to the libcdaudio home page, upstream seems to be aware of
> this issue, as they acknowledge having security issues and even link to
> old Gentoo GLSA.

Our package contains this patch. Thanks for the references.

-- 
Bye,
     Thomas
-- 
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