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Arch Linux Security Warning        ALSW 2007-#15    
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Name:      amarok-base
Date:      2007-03-14
Severity:  Low
Warning #: 2007-#15

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Product Background
===================
Amarok is an advanced music player.


Problem Background
===================
The Magnatune component shipped with Amarok is vulnerable to the
injection of arbitrary shell code from a malicious Magnatune server.

Impact
==========
A compromised or malicious Magnatune server can remotely execute
arbitrary shell code with the rights of the user running Amarok on a
client that have previously registered for buying music.

Workaround
==========
Do not use the Magnatune component of Amarok.

Problem Packages
===================
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Package       |   Repo    |   Group    |   Unsafe   |    Safe    |
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amarok-base       extra     multimedia   <= 1.4.5-2   Only patched

Package Fix
===================

Patch amarok with this patch ( from SVN repo, formatted by our gentoo
cousin :P ):
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/media-sound/amarok/files/amarok-1.4.5-magnatune.patch

====================

Unofficial ArchLinux Security Bug Tracker:
http://jjdanimoth.netsons.org/alsw.html

Reference(s)
===================

http://secunia.com/advisories/24159
CVE-2006-6979

Contact
==================
JJDaNiMoTh < jjdanimoth AT gmail DOT com >
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