metadata/glsa/glsa-200702-11.xml

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<glsa id="200702-11">
  <title>MPlayer: Buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    A buffer overflow was found in MPlayer's RTSP plugin that could lead to a
    Denial of Service or arbitrary code execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">MPlayer</product>
  <announced>February 27, 2007</announced>
  <revised>February 27, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>159727</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-video/mplayer" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0_rc1-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0_rc1-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    MPlayer is a media player capable of playing multiple media formats.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    When checking for matching asm rules in the asmrp.c code, the results
    are stored in a fixed-size array without boundary checks which may
    allow a buffer overflow.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker can entice a user to connect to a manipulated RTSP server
    resulting in a Denial of Service and possibly execution of arbitrary
    code.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc1-r2&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html#vuln14">Original Advisory</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6172">CVE-2006-6172</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:10:45 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:54:03 +0000">
    daxomatic
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:06:52 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>