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MPlayer GUI File Name Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo has released advisory GLSA 200408-01 dealing with this issue. All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge sync

# emerge -pv ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7"
# emerge ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7"

For more information please see the referenced vendor advisory.

Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: vuldb@securityfocus.com <mailto:vuldb@securityfocus.com>.