Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201605-11
=========================================
Severity: Medium
Date    : 2016-05-07
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-4352
Package : mplayer
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
======
The package mplayer before version 37857-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 37857-1.

# pacman -Syu "mplayer>=37857-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 37857.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
==========
A vulnerability has been discovered that is leading to a crash when
playing a fuzzed gif file. The gif demuxes assumed in many places that
width*height is <= INT_MAX, however this was not always true and was
leading to an integer overflow.

Impact
=====
A remote attacker is able to use a specially crafted gid file that, when
processed, is resulting in an application crash leading to denial of
service.

References
=========
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4352
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/7
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49195
https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2295

ArchLinux: 201605-11: mplayer: denial of service

May 7, 2016

Summary

A vulnerability has been discovered that is leading to a crash when playing a fuzzed gif file. The gif demuxes assumed in many places that width*height is <= INT_MAX, however this was not always true and was leading to an integer overflow.

Resolution

Upgrade to 37857-1. # pacman -Syu "mplayer>=37857-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 37857.

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4352 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/29/7 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49195 https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2295

Severity
Package : mplayer
Type : denial of service
Remote : Yes
Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Workaround

None.

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