[SECURITY] [DSA 1313-1] New MPlayer packages fix arbitrary code execution
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1313-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
June 19th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : mplayer
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2007-2948
Stefan Cornelius and Reimar Doeffinger discovered that the MPlayer movie
player performs insufficient boundary checks when accessing CDDB data,
which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include MPlayer packages.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0~rc1-12etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0~rc1-14.
We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer package.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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