Nullsoft Winamp MIDI System Exclusive Message Processing Integer Underflow Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 17 May 2011 10:41 Release Date: 17 May 2011 6615 Views

RISK: High Risk

TYPE: Clients - Audio & Video

A vulnerability has been identified in Winamp, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an integer underflow error when processing System Exclusive (SysEx) MIDI messages, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted MIDI file.

Impact

Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

Nullsoft Winamp 5.x

Solutions

There is no patch available for this vulnerability currently.

Vulnerability Identifier

No CVE information is available

Source

Secunia