<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200707-07"> <title>MPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows</title> <synopsis> Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, possibly allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">mplayer</product> <announced>2007-07-24</announced> <revised count="03">2007-10-12</revised> <bug>181097</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="media-video/mplayer" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.0.20070622</unaffected> <unaffected range="lt">1.0</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.20070622</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> MPlayer is a media player incuding support for a wide range of audio and video formats. </p> </background> <description> <p> Stefan Cornelius and Reimar Doffinger of Secunia Research discovered several boundary errors in the functions cddb_query_parse(), cddb_parse_matches_list() and cddb_read_parse(), each allowing for a stack-based buffer overflow. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file with malicious CDDB entries, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges 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-1.0.20070622"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2948">CVE-2007-2948</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-07-15T07:30:30Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-07-17T18:47:22Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-07-17T18:48:15Z"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>