GLSA 200705-21: MPlayer: Two buffer overflows

Severity:normal
Title:MPlayer: Two buffer overflows
Date:05/30/2007
Bugs: #168917
ID:200705-21

Synopsis

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, each one could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

MPlayer is a media player incuding support for a wide range of audio and video formats.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
media-video/mplayer < 1.0.20070321 >= 1.0.20070321 All supported architectures

Description

A buffer overflow has been reported in the DMO_VideoDecoder_Open() function in file loader/dmo/DMO_VideoDecoder.c. Another buffer overflow has been reported in the DS_VideoDecoder_Open() function in file loader/dshow/DS_VideoDecoder.c.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted video file, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges 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-1.0.20070321"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-21.xml

Concerns?

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License

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