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faad2 -- heap overflow vulnerability

Affected packages
		faad2	<	2.6.1_1,1

Details

VuXML ID	445ed958-b0d9-11dd-a55e-00163e000016
Discovery	2008-09-16
Entry	2008-11-12
Modified	2008-11-13

CVE reports:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the decodeMP4file function (frontend/main.c) in FAAD2 2.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MPEG-4 (MP4) file.

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References

CVE Name	CVE-2008-4201
URL	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499899
URL	http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200811-03.xml