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Debian 4.0: DSA 1313-1 Critical: MPlayer Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2007
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Enhance VLC components to mitigate potential exploitation stemming from stack overflow vulnerabilities. Ensure your safety!
Stefan Cornelius and Reimar Doeffinger discovered that the MPlayer movie player performs insufficient boundary checks when accessing CDDB data, which might lead to the execution ...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0~rc1-12etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0~rc1-14.

We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer package.


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

Size/MD5 checksum: 1265 6d0b64ba23476545f12d569535d32b13
Size/MD5 checksum: 84073 3408d0ce7dd69254e4478bb3131656e5
Size/MD5 checksum: 10286260 815482129b79cb9390904b145c5def6c

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD...

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