GLSA 200604-15: xine-ui: Format string vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	xine-ui: Format string vulnerabilities
Date:	04/26/2006
Bugs:	#130801
ID:	200604-15

Synopsis

Format string vulnerabilities in xine-ui may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

xine-ui is a skin-based user interface for xine. xine is a free multimedia player. It plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs, and can also decode other common multimedia formats.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
media-video/xine-ui	< 0.99.4-r5	>= 0.99.4-r5	All supported architectures

Description

Ludwig Nussel discovered that xine-ui incorrectly implements formatted printing.

Impact

By constructing a malicious playlist file, a remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All xine-ui users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r5"

References

CVE-2006-1905

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200604-15.xml

Concerns?

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