Debian: DSA-1644-1 Urgent: Integer Overflow In Mplayer Media Player
debian
October 5, 2008
Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that mplayer, a multimedia player, is
vulnerable to several integer overflows in the Real video stream
demuxing code
Topics Covered
Summary
We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer packages.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
- ---------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 86658 cd099ed406a7c844930c9887d8982a52
Size/MD5 checksum: 10286260 815482129b79cb9390904b145c5def6c
Size/MD5 checksum: 1265 b270973c3ce8e7fbfca6f9cd3eb66425
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 2047298 17e990bdca10c40756b82a9dc5a2e265
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