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Gentoo GLSA-200408-01 Normal: MPlayer Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey August 1, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
XPlayer exhibits susceptibility to a stack overflow exploit when built with graphical interface capabilities. Update is recommended for safeguarding.
When compiled with GUI support MPlayer is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable buffer overflow attack.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200408-01
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: MPlayer: GUI filename handling overflow
      Date: August 01, 2004
      Bugs: #55456
        ID: 200408-01


Synopsis
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When compiled with GUI support MPlayer is vulnerable to a remotely
exploitable buffer overflow attack.

Background
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MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file
formats.

Affected packages
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     Package              /    Vulnerable    /             Unaffected
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  1  media-video/mplayer      < 1.0_pre4-r7            >= 1.0_pre4-r7

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The MPlayer GUI code contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities,
and at least one in the TranslateFilen...
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