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TITLE:
Common Data Format "Read32s_64()" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30053

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30053/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Common Data Format 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/18564/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Common Data Format, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an
application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
"Read32s_64()" function. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based
buffer overflow via a specially crafted CDF file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.2.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.2.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Alfredo Ortega, Core Security Technologies

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Core Security Technologies:
http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=ContentMod&action=item&id=2260

NASA:
http://cdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/CDF32_buffer_overflow.html

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