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Debian: DSA-2005-123 Severe: VLC Media Player Buffer Underflow Threat

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Calendar Grey July 6, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
VLC Media Player has an SQL injection flaw. Patch to mitigate unauthorized data access threats on Arch Linux distributions.
RealPlayer is vulnerable to a heap overflow that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: RealPlayer: Heap overflow vulnerability Date: July 06, 2005 Bugs: #96923 ID: 200507-04

Synopsis ======= RealPlayer is vulnerable to a heap overflow that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= RealPlayer is a multimedia player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/realplayer < 10.0.5 >= 10.0.5
========== RealPlayer is vulnerable to a heap overflow when opening RealMedia files which make use of RealText.
Impact ===== By enticing a user to play a specially craf...

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