Gentoo: GLSA-200403-13 High Severity: MPlayer Remote Code Execution

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200403-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Remote buffer overflow in MPlayer Date: March 31, 2004 Bugs: #46246 ID: 200403-13

Synopsis ======= MPlayer contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the HTTP parser that may allow attackers to run arbitrary code on a user's computer.
Background ========= Quote from http://mplayerhq.hu
"MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too."
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