<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200504-19"> <title>MPlayer: Two heap overflow vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> Two vulnerabilities have been found in MPlayer which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">MPlayer</product> <announced>2005-04-20</announced> <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised> <bug>89277</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="media-video/mplayer" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.0_pre6-r4</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.0_pre6-r4</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. </p> </background> <description> <p> Heap overflows have been found in the code handling RealMedia RTSP and Microsoft Media Services streams over TCP (MMST). </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> By setting up a malicious server and enticing a user to use its streaming data, a remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code on the client computer with the permissions of the user running MPlayer. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r4"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html#vuln10">MPlayer News: Real RTSP heap overflow</uri> <uri link="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html#vuln11">MPlayer News: MMST heap overflow</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1195">CVE-2005-1195</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-04-16T16:59:51Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-04-18T09:17:55Z"> vorlon078 </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-04-19T07:28:03Z"> koon </metadata> </glsa>