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Gentoo: 200405-24 High Severity: MPlayer And xine-lib RTSP Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 28, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Critical vulnerabilities due to buffer overflows have been identified in VLC and FFmpeg; immediate patching is essential for impacted users.
Multiple vulnerabilities, including remotely exploitable buffer overflows, have been found in code common to MPlayer and the xine library

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200405-24
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: High
     Title: MPlayer, xine-lib: vulnerabilities in RTSP stream handling
      Date: May 28, 2004
      Bugs: #49387
        ID: 200405-24


Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities, including remotely exploitable buffer
overflows, have been found in code common to MPlayer and the xine
library.

Background
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MPlayer is a movie player capable of handling multiple multimedia file
formats. xine-lib is a multimedia player library used by several
graphical user interfaces, including xine-ui. They both use the same
code to handle Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) streams from
RealNetworks servers.

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