<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200504-27"> <title>xine-lib: Two heap overflow vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> Two vulnerabilities have been found in xine-lib which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">xine-lib</product> <announced>2005-04-26</announced> <revised count="01">2005-04-26</revised> <bug>89976</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="media-libs/xine-lib" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.0-r2</unaffected> <unaffected range="rge">1_rc6-r2</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.0-r2</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create multimedia frontends. </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 any multimedia frontend making use of the xine-lib library. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All xine-lib users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose media-libs/xine-lib</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://xinehq.de/index.php/security/XSA-2004-8">Xine Advisory XSA-2004-8</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-04-22T08:22:32Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-04-26T20:44:06Z"> koon </metadata> </glsa>