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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1782-1 (mplayer)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to mplayer announced via advisory DSA 1782-1.
Insight
Insight
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mplayer, a movie player for Unix-like systems. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2009-0385 It was discovered that watching a malformed 4X movie file could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2008-4866 It was discovered that multiple buffer overflows could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2008-5616 It was discovered that watching a malformed TwinVQ file could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch7. For the stable distribution (lenny), mplayer links against ffmpeg-debian. For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), mplayer links against ffmpeg-debian. We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer packages.
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201782-1