[ GLSA 200803-16 ] MPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200803-16

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Severity: Normal
Title: MPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows
Date: March 10, 2008
Bugs: #208566
ID: 200803-16

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, possibly
allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

MPlayer is a media player incuding support for a wide range of audio
and video formats.

Affected packages

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 Package              /     Vulnerable     /            Unaffected
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1 media-video/mplayer < 1.0_rc2_p25993 >= 1.0_rc2_p25993

Description

The following errors have been discovered in MPlayer:

Felipe Manzano and Anibal Sacco (Core Security Technologies)
reported an array indexing error in the file libmpdemux/demux_mov.c
when parsing MOV file headers (CVE-2008-0485).
Damian Frizza and Alfredo Ortega (Core Security Technologies)
reported a boundary error in the file libmpdemux/demux_audio.c when
parsing FLAC comments (CVE-2008-0486).
Adam Bozanich (Mu Security) reported boundary errors in the
cddb_parse_matches_list() and cddb_query_parse() functions in the
file stream_cddb.c when parsing CDDB album titles (CVE-2008-0629) and
in the url_scape_string() function in the file stream/url.c when
parsing URLS (CVE-2008-0630).

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file,
possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running MPlayer.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:

emerge --sync

emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p25993"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-0485
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0485
[ 2 ] CVE-2008-0486
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0486
[ 3 ] CVE-2008-0629
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0629
[ 4 ] CVE-2008-0630
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0630

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-16.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.