GLSA 200504-19: MPlayer: Two heap overflow vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	MPlayer: Two heap overflow vulnerabilities
Date:	04/20/2005
Bugs:	#89277
ID:	200504-19

Synopsis

Two vulnerabilities have been found in MPlayer which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
media-video/mplayer	< 1.0_pre6-r4	>= 1.0_pre6-r4	All supported architectures

Description

Heap overflows have been found in the code handling RealMedia RTSP and Microsoft Media Services streams over TCP (MMST).

Impact

By setting up a malicious server and enticing a user to use its streaming data, a remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code on the client computer with the permissions of the user running MPlayer.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r4"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200504-19.xml

Concerns?

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