GLSA 200405-24: MPlayer, xine-lib: vulnerabilities in RTSP
Posted on: 05/29/2004 03:07 AM
An Mplayer update has been released for Gentoo Linux
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200405-24
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: High
Title: MPlayer, xine-lib: vulnerabilities in RTSP stream handling
Date: May 28, 2004
Bugs: #49387
ID: 200405-24
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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities, including remotely exploitable buffer overflows, have been found in code common to MPlayer and the xine library.
Background
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MPlayer is a movie player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. xine-lib is a multimedia player library used by several graphical user interfaces, including xine-ui. They both use the same code to handle Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) streams from RealNetworks servers.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-video/mplayer < 1.0_pre4 >= 1.0_pre4
<= 0.92-r1
2 media-libs/xine-lib < 1_rc4 >= 1_rc4
<= 0.9.13-r3
Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in the RTSP handling code common to recent versions of these two packages. These vulnerabilities include several remotely exploitable buffer overflows.
Impact
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A remote attacker, posing as a RTSP stream server, can execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user of the software playing the stream (MPlayer or any player using xine-lib). Another attacker may entice a user to use a maliciously crafted URL or playlist to achieve the same results.
Workaround
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For MPlayer, there is no known workaround at this time. For xine-lib, you can delete the xineplug_inp_rtsp.so file.
Resolution
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All users should upgrade to non-vulnerable versions of MPlayer and xine-lib:
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4"
# emerge ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4"
# emerge -pv ">=media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc4"
# emerge ">=media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc4"
References
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[ 1 ] Xine security advisory
http://xinehq.de/index.php/security/XSA-2004-3
[ 2 ] CAN-2004-0433
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0433
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-24.xml
Concerns?
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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 http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0