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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200309-15 |
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PACKAGE : media-video/mplayer |
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SUMMARY : Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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DATE : 2003-09-27 21:37 UTC |
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EXPLOIT : remote |
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VERSIONS AFFECTED : <=mplayer-0.91 =mplayer-1.0_pre1 |
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FIXED VERSION : =mplayer-0.92 =mplayer-1.0_pre1-r1 |
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GENTOO BUG ID : 29640 |
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CVE : none that we are aware of at this time |
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SUMMARY: |
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A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability was found in |
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MPlayer. A malicious host can craft a harmful ASX header, and trick |
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MPlayer into executing arbitrary code upon parsing that header. |
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read the full advisory at: |
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http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html |
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SOLUTION: |
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It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running |
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media-video/mplayer upgrade to mplayer-0.92 as follows |
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emerge sync |
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emerge =media-video/mplayer-0.92 |
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emerge clean |
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Additionally PaX users might want to /sbin/chpax -m /usr/bin/mplayer |
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