# CVE-2006-4089: Multiple buffer overflows in Andy Lo-A-Foe AlsaPlayer 0.99.76 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application c

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Published: 2006-08-11 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Andy Lo-A-Foe AlsaPlayer 0.99.76 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), or have other unknown impact, via (1) a long Location field sent by a web server, which triggers an overflow in the reconnect function in reader/http/http.c; (2) a long URL sent by a web server when AlsaPlayer is seeking a media file for the playlist, which triggers overflows in new_list_item and CbUpdated in interface/gtk/PlaylistWindow.cpp; and (3) a long response sent by a CDDB server, which triggers an overflow in cddb_lookup in input/ccda/cdda_engine.c.

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## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19450
- http://www.osvdb.org/27883
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1356
- http://www.osvdb.org/27885
- http://www.osvdb.org/27884
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21749
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28306
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22018
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442725/100/0/threaded
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/alsapbof-adv.txt
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21422
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-24.xml
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_21_sr.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1179
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28308
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28307
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3235
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-08/0249.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21639
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28367

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