GLSA 200504-19: MPlayer: Two heap overflow vulnerabilities

A MPlayer security update has been released

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-19
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: MPlayer: Two heap overflow vulnerabilities
Date: April 20, 2005
Bugs: #89277
ID: 200504-19

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

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

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-video/mplayer lt; 1.0_pre6-r4 gt;= 1.0_pre6-r4

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

Impact
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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
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:

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

References
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[ 1 ] MPlayer News: Real RTSP heap overflow
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html#vuln10
[ 2 ] MPlayer News: MMST heap overflow
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html#vuln11

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-200504-19.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 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

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