Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Real-Time Streaming Protocol security bug (affects MPlayer and xine-lib)
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 10:57:23
Message-Id: 20040523105831.GV26130@mail.lieber.org
1 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49387
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3 We need to get this bug resolved and marked stable. There is an open
4 security vulnerability that allows remote execution of arbitrary code.
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6 There seem to be a number of problems on sparc and amd64, with additional
7 problems reported on x86 from at least one user.
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9 This bug is rated as a high vulnerability and has been outstanding for
10 nearly a month now. I'd like to see if we can get it fully resolved in the
11 next 48 hours so I don't have to security mask it.
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13 Thanks.
14
15 --kurt

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