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Gentoo: GLSA-200504-19 Normal: MPlayer Heap Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey April 20, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
MPlayer in Gentoo is facing severe heap overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution. Users are strongly encouraged to update.
Two vulnerabilities have been found in MPlayer which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-19 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: MPlayer: Two heap overflow vulnerabilities Date: April 20, 2005 Bugs: #89277 ID: 200504-19

Synopsis ======= Two vulnerabilities have been found in MPlayer which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/mplayer < 1.0_pre6-r4 >= 1.0_pre6-r4
========== Heap overflows have been found in the code handling RealMedia RTSP and Microsoft Media Services streams over TCP (MMST).
Impact ===== By setting up...

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