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[GLSA-200412-21] MPlayer: Multiple overflows

Family:

Gentoo Local Security Checks

Category:

infos

Copyright:

(C) 2004 Michel Arboi

Summary:

MPlayer: Multiple overflows

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Cve_id:

-

Bugtraq_id:

-

Xrefs:

GLSA:200412-21

Description:

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200412-21
(MPlayer: Multiple overflows)


iDEFENSE, Ariel Berkman and the MPlayer development team found
multiple vulnerabilities in MPlayer. These include potential heap
overflows in Real RTSP and pnm streaming code, stack overflows in MMST
streaming code and multiple buffer overflows in BMP demuxer and mp3lib
code.

Impact

A remote attacker could craft a malicious file or design a
malicious streaming server. Using MPlayer to view this file or connect
to this server could trigger an overflow and execute
attacker-controlled code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

References:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=168&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=167&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=166&type=vulnerabilities
http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/mplayer.txt


Solution:
All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre5-r5"


Risk factor : Medium