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Gentoo: GLSA-200408-19 Normal: xine-lib Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey August 17, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo Linux Security Notice GLSA-200412-07 relating to libpng vulnerability that may lead to arbitrary code execution.
xine-lib contains an exploitable buffer overflow in the VCD handling code

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200408-18 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: xine-lib: VCD MRL buffer overflow Date: August 17, 2004 Bugs: #59948 ID: 200408-18

Synopsis ======= xine-lib contains an exploitable buffer overflow in the VCD handling code
Background ========= xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create multimedia frontends.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/xine-lib <= 1_rc5-r2 >= 1_rc5-r3
========== xine-lib contains a bug where it is possible to overflow the vcd:// input source identifier management buffer through carefully crafted playlists.
Impact ===== An attacker may const...

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