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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200408-01.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200408-01">
<title>MPlayer: GUI filename handling overflow</title>
<synopsis>
When compiled with GUI support MPlayer is vulnerable to a remotely
exploitable buffer overflow attack.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">MPlayer</product>
<announced>August 01, 2004</announced>
<revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
<bug>55456</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="media-video/mplayer" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.0_pre4-r7</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.0_pre4-r7</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file
formats.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
The MPlayer GUI code contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities,
and at least one in the TranslateFilename() function is exploitable.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
By enticing a user to play a file with a carefully crafted filename an
attacker could execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user
running MPlayer.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
To work around this issue, users can compile MPlayer without GUI
support by disabling the gtk USE flag. All users are encouraged to
upgrade to the latest available version of MPlayer.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv &quot;&gt;=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7&quot;
# emerge &quot;&gt;=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10615/">Bugtraq Announcement</uri>
<uri link="http://www.open-security.org/advisories/5">Open-Security Announcement</uri>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0659">CVE-2004-0659</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester">
koon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter">
jaervosz
</metadata>
</glsa>