Sony CONNECT SonicStage Player M3U Playlist Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	26241
Class:	Boundary Condition Error
CVE:	CVE-2007-5709
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Oct 29 2007 12:00AM
Updated:	Nov 04 2008 07:15PM
Credit:	Parvez Anwar is credited with discovering this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Sony CONNECT SonicStage Player 4.3
Not Vulnerable:

Sony CONNECT SonicStage Player M3U Playlist Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Sony CONNECT SonicStage player is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer.

Remote attackers may crash the application or execute arbitrary machine code in the context of the user running the affected application.

This issue affects SonicStage 4.3; other versions may also be vulnerable.

Sony CONNECT SonicStage Player M3U Playlist Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting victim to load a malicious 'M3U' playlist file.

The following exploit code is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/26241.py

Sony CONNECT SonicStage Player M3U Playlist Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Sony CONNECT SonicStage Player M3U Playlist Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

References:

• Sony CONNECT SonicStage Homepage (Sony)
  
• Vendor Homepage (Sony)