[ GLSA 200707-07 ] MPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows

From: Raphael Marichez <falco(at)gentoo.org>
Date: Tue Jul 24 2007 - 18:33:33 EDT

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  Severity: Normal
     Title: MPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows
      Date: July 24, 2007
      Bugs: #181097
        ID: 200707-07

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Synopsis

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, possibly allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

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MPlayer is a media player incuding support for a wide range of audio and video formats.

Affected packages

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     Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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  1 media-video/mplayer < 1.0.20070622 >= 1.0.20070622

Description

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Stefan Cornelius and Reimar Döffinger of Secunia Research discovered several boundary errors in the functions cddb_query_parse(), cddb_parse_matches_list() and cddb_read_parse(), each allowing for a stack-based buffer overflow.

Impact

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A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file with malicious CDDB entries, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running MPlayer.

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-1.0.20070622"

References

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  [ 1 ] CVE-2007-2948
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2948

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-200707-07.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@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

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Copyright 2007 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/2.5

Received on Wed Jul 25 11:29:31 2007