gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200803-16.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200803-16">
<title>MPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows</title>
<synopsis>
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, possibly allowing
for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">mplayer</product>
<announced>2008-03-10</announced>
<revised count="01">2008-03-10</revised>
<bug>208566</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="media-video/mplayer" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.0_rc2_p25993</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.0_rc2_p25993</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>
The following errors have been discovered in MPlayer:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Felipe Manzano and Anibal Sacco (Core Security Technologies)
reported an array indexing error in the file libmpdemux/demux_mov.c
when parsing MOV file headers (CVE-2008-0485).</li>
<li>Damian Frizza
and Alfredo Ortega (Core Security Technologies) reported a boundary
error in the file libmpdemux/demux_audio.c when parsing FLAC comments
(CVE-2008-0486).</li>
<li>Adam Bozanich (Mu Security) reported boundary
errors in the cddb_parse_matches_list() and cddb_query_parse()
functions in the file stream_cddb.c when parsing CDDB album titles
(CVE-2008-0629) and in the url_scape_string() function in the file
stream/url.c when parsing URLS (CVE-2008-0630).</li>
</ul>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file,
possibly 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 "&gt;=media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p25993"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0485">CVE-2008-0485</uri>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0486">CVE-2008-0486</uri>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0629">CVE-2008-0629</uri>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0630">CVE-2008-0630</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-02-19T20:10:11Z">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-02-19T20:13:04Z">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-03-07T23:38:09Z">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>