GLSA Bodhisattva
Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 4087 Location: Dresden, Germany
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:39 am Post subject: [ GLSA 200408-01 ] MPlayer: GUI filename handling overflow |
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Title: MPlayer: GUI filename handling overflow (GLSA 200408-01)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: August 01, 2004
Updated: May 22, 2006
Bug(s): #55456
ID: 200408-01
Synopsis
When compiled with GUI support MPlayer is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable buffer overflow attack.
Background
MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats.
Affected Packages
Package: media-video/mplayer
Vulnerable: < 1.0_pre4-r7
Unaffected: >= 1.0_pre4-r7
Architectures: All supported architectures
Description
The MPlayer GUI code contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities, and at least one in the TranslateFilename() function is exploitable.
Impact
By enticing a user to play a file with a carefully crafted filename an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running MPlayer.
Workaround
To work around this issue, users can compile MPlayer without GUI support by disabling the gtk USE flag. All users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest available version of MPlayer.
Resolution
All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version: Code: | # emerge sync
# emerge -pv ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7"
# emerge ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7" |
References
Bugtraq Announcement
Open-Security Announcement
CVE-2004-0659
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