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Debian: DSA-1729-1 Critical: GStreamer Gst-Plugins-Bad Local Threat

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Calendar Grey March 2, 2009
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The Debian security advisory DSA-1729-2 addresses severe weaknesses found in libxml2 which could potentially permit unauthorized code execution.
Several vulnerabilities have been found in gst-plugins-bad0.10, a collection of various GStreamer plugins
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Summary

CVE-2009-0386

Tobias Klein discovered a buffer overflow in the quicktime stream
demuxer (qtdemux), which could potentially lead to the execution of
arbitrary code via crafted .mov files.

CVE-2009-0387

Tobias Klein discovered an array index error in the quicktime stream
demuxer (qtdemux), which could potentially lead to the execution of
arbitrary code via crafted .mov files.

CVE-2009-0397

Tobias Klein discovered a buffer overflow in the quicktime stream
demuxer (qtdemux) similar to the issue reported in CVE-2009-0386, which
could also lead to the execution of arbitrary code via crafted .mov
files.


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.10.8-4.1~lenny1 of gst-plugins-good0.10, since the affected
plugin has been moved there. The fix was already included in the lenny
release.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.10.3-3.1+etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) and the testing distribution
(squeeze), these problems ha...

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