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FreeBSD Ports: mplayer, mplayer-gtk, mplayer-esound, mplayer-gtk-esound
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 the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
The following packages are affected: mplayer mplayer-gtk mplayer-esound mplayer-gtk-esound CVE-2006-0579 Multiple integer overflows in (1) the new_demux_packet function in demuxer.h and (2) the demux_asf_read_packet function in demux_asf.c in MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an ASF file with a large packet length value. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown portions of the details are obtained from third party information.
Solution
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html#vuln13 http://secunia.com/advisories/18718 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122029 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/104beb63-af4d-11da-8414-0013d4a4a40e.html