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Severity: Normal
Title: MPlayer: Heap-based buffer overflow
Date: May 01, 2006
Bugs: #127969
ID: 200605-01

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Synopsis
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MPlayer contains multiple integer overflows that may lead to a
heap-based buffer overflow.

Background
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MPlayer is a media player that supports many multimedia file types.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-video/mplayer < 1.0.20060415 >= 1.0.20060415
2 media-video/mplayer-bin < 1.0.20060415 >= 1.0.20060415
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
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Xfocus Team discovered multiple integer overflows that may lead to a
heap-based buffer overflow.

Impact
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An attacker could entice a user to play a specially crafted multimedia
file, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0.20060415"

All MPlayer binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/mplayer-bin-1.0.20060415"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2006-1502
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1502

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200605-01.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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