metadata/glsa/glsa-200408-01.xml

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<glsa id="200408-01">
  <title>MPlayer: GUI filename handling overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    When compiled with GUI support MPlayer is vulnerable to a remotely
    exploitable buffer overflow attack.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">MPlayer</product>
  <announced>August 01, 2004</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>55456</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-video/mplayer" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0_pre4-r7</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0_pre4-r7</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file
    formats.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The MPlayer GUI code contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities,
    and at least one in the TranslateFilename() function is exploitable.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By enticing a user to play a file with a carefully crafted filename an
    attacker could execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user
    running MPlayer.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    To work around this issue, users can compile MPlayer without GUI
    support by disabling the gtk USE flag. All users are encouraged to
    upgrade to the latest available version of MPlayer.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv &quot;&gt;=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7&quot;
    # emerge &quot;&gt;=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10615/">Bugtraq Announcement</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.open-security.org/advisories/5">Open-Security Announcement</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0659">CVE-2004-0659</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>