<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200901-07"> <title>MPlayer: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> Multiple vulnerabilities in MPlayer may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">mplayer</product> <announced>2009-01-12</announced> <revised count="01">2009-01-12</revised> <bug>231836</bug> <bug>239130</bug> <bug>251017</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="media-video/mplayer" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 </unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 </vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> MPlayer is a media player including support for a wide range of audio and video formats. </p> </background> <description> <p> Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in MPlayer: </p> <ul> <li>A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the str_read_packet() function in libavformat/psxstr.c when processing crafted STR files that interleave audio and video sectors (CVE-2008-3162).</li> <li>Felipe Andres Manzano reported multiple integer underflows in the demux_real_fill_buffer() function in demux_real.c when processing crafted Real Media files that cause the stream_read() function to read or write arbitrary memory (CVE-2008-3827).</li> <li>Tobias Klein reported a stack-based buffer overflow in the demux_open_vqf() function in libmpdemux/demux_vqf.c when processing malformed TwinVQ files (CVE-2008-5616).</li> </ul> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted STR, Real Media, or TwinVQ file to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service. </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_rc2_p28058-r1 "</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3162">CVE-2008-3162</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3827">CVE-2008-3827</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5616">CVE-2008-5616</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-11-29T14:10:43Z"> rbu </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-01-11T12:40:15Z"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-01-11T14:37:53Z"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>