gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201805-05.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201805-05">
  <title>mpv: Remote code execution</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in mpv that may allow a remote
    attacker to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mpv</product>
  <announced>2018-05-14</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-05-14</revised>
  <bug>646886</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-video/mpv" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.27.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.27.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability was discovered in mpv with the handling of HTML
      documents containing VIDEO elements. Additionally, mpv accepts arbitrary
      URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in
      player/lua/ytdl_hook.lua.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A remote attacker, by enticing the user to visit a specially crafted web
      site, could execute arbitrary code.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All mpv users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-video/mpv-0.27.2"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6360">CVE-2018-6360</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-05-07T16:02:12Z">jmbailey</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-05-14T23:21:56Z">jmbailey</metadata>
</glsa>