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Gentoo: GLSA-200501-07 Normal Severity: xine-lib Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey January 6, 2005
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-08 concerning xine-lib numerous buffer overflows resulting in potential arbitrary code execution.
xine-lib contains multiple overflows potentially allowing execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: xine-lib: Multiple overflows Date: January 06, 2005 Bugs: #74475 ID: 200501-07

Synopsis ======= xine-lib contains multiple overflows potentially allowing execution of arbitrary 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_rc8-r1 >= 1_rc8-r1 *>= 1_rc6-r1
========== Ariel Berkman discovered that xine-lib reads specific input data into an array without checking the input s...

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