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<glsa id="200705-21">
  <title>MPlayer: Two buffer overflows</title>
  <synopsis>
    Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, each one could lead to
    the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mplayer</product>
  <announced>May 30, 2007</announced>
  <revised>October 12, 2007: 02</revised>
  <bug>168917</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-video/mplayer" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0.20070321</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="lt">1.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.20070321</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    MPlayer is a media player incuding support for a wide range of audio
    and video formats.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    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.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    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.
    </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-1.0.20070321&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1246">CVE-2007-1246</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1387">CVE-2007-1387</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-09.xml">GLSA 200704-09</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 20 May 2007 07:29:09 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 20 May 2007 07:29:20 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 21 May 2007 13:01:40 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>