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Gentoo: GLSA-200504-27 Normal: xine-lib Heap Overflow Risks

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Calendar Grey April 26, 2005
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Modify your xine-lib package to resolve two major heap overflow vulnerabilities that could allow unauthorized code execution, creating serious security threats
Two vulnerabilities have been found in xine-lib which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-27 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: xine-lib: Two heap overflow vulnerabilities Date: April 26, 2005 Bugs: #89976 ID: 200504-27

Synopsis ======= Two vulnerabilities have been found in xine-lib which could lead to the remote 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 < 1.0-r2 >= 1.0-r2 *>= 1_rc6-r2
========== Heap overflows have been found in the code handling RealMedia RT...

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