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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200702-11.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200702-11">
<title>MPlayer: Buffer overflow</title>
<synopsis>
A buffer overflow was found in MPlayer's RTSP plugin that could lead to a
Denial of Service or arbitrary code execution.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">MPlayer</product>
<announced>February 27, 2007</announced>
<revised>February 27, 2007: 01</revised>
<bug>159727</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="media-video/mplayer" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.0_rc1-r2</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.0_rc1-r2</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
MPlayer is a media player capable of playing multiple media formats.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
When checking for matching asm rules in the asmrp.c code, the results
are stored in a fixed-size array without boundary checks which may
allow a buffer overflow.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
An attacker can entice a user to connect to a manipulated RTSP server
resulting in a Denial of Service and possibly execution of arbitrary
code.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc1-r2&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html#vuln14">Original Advisory</uri>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6172">CVE-2006-6172</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:10:45 +0000">
falco
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:54:03 +0000">
daxomatic
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:06:52 +0000">
falco
</metadata>
</glsa>