Description
A vulnerability has been reported in libxmp, which can be exploited by 
malicious people to compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the "get_dsmp"() 
function (src/loaders/masi_load.c) when parsing MASI files, which can be 
exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 4.1.0.


Solution
Update to version 4.1.0.

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Douglas Carmichael.

Original Advisory
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmp/files/libxmp/4.1.0/Changelog/view

Commit:
http://sourceforge.net/p/xmp/libxmp/ci/a015fdfb478a60172fd225632a11bbd02870fc40/


[1]: https://secunia.com/advisories/53114/
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Agostino Sarubbo
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