Gentoo GLSA-200501-18: Normal VLC Media Player Buffer Underflow Issue
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December 20, 2004
Multiple overflow vulnerabilities have been found in MPlayer, potentially resulting in remote executing of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-21
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: MPlayer: Multiple overflows
Date: December 20, 2004
Bugs: #74473
ID: 200412-21
Synopsis
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Multiple overflow vulnerabilities have been found in MPlayer,
potentially resulting in remote executing of arbitrary code.
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_pre5-r4 >= 1.0_pre5-r5
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iDEFENSE, Ariel Berkman and the MPlayer development team found multiple
vulnerabilities in MPlayer. These include potential heap overflows in
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