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mplayer -- twinvq processing buffer overflow vulnerability
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-esound mplayer-gtk mplayer-gtk-esound mplayer-gtk2 mplayer-gtk2-esound CVE-2008-5616 Stack-based buffer overflow in the demux_open_vqf function in libmpdemux/demux_vqf.c in MPlayer 1.0 rc2 before r28150 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed TwinVQ file.
Solution
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://secunia.com/advisories/33136/ http://trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-014.txt http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/7c5bd5b8-d652-11dd-a765-0030843d3802.html