GLSA 200604-04: Kaffeine: Buffer overflow

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Kaffeine: Buffer overflow
Date:	04/05/2006
Bugs:	#127326
ID:	200604-04

Synopsis

Kaffeine is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Kaffeine is a graphical front-end for the xine-lib multimedia library.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
media-video/kaffeine	< 0.7.1-r2	>= 0.7.1-r2	All supported architectures

Description

Kaffeine uses an unchecked buffer when fetching remote RAM playlists via HTTP.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to play a specially-crafted RAM playlist resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Kaffeine users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/kaffeine-0.7.1-r2"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200604-04.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.