metadata/glsa/glsa-200701-18.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200701-18">
  <title>xine-ui: Format string vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    xine-ui improperly handles format strings, possibly allowing for the
    execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">xine-ui</product>
  <announced>January 23, 2007</announced>
  <revised>January 23, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>161558</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-video/xine-ui" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.99.5_pre20060716</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.99.5_pre20060716</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    xine-ui is a skin-based user interface for xine. xine is a free
    multimedia player. It plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs, and can also decode
    other common multimedia formats.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Due to the improper handling and use of format strings, the
    errors_create_window() function in errors.c does not safely write data
    to memory.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted media file
    with xine-ui, and possibly execute arbitrary code.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All xine-ui users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5_pre20060716&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0254">CVE-2007-0254</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:36:36 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:40:52 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:55:17 +0000">
    shellsage
  </metadata>
</glsa>