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Gentoo: GLSA-200601-06 Normal: xine-lib and FFmpeg Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo alert issues notice on vulnerability in xine-lib, FFmpeg causing potential arbitrary code execution. Users urged to apply updates for enhanced security measures.
xine-lib and FFmpeg are vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200601-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: xine-lib, FFmpeg: Heap-based buffer overflow Date: January 10, 2006 Bugs: #115849, #116181 ID: 200601-06

Synopsis ======= xine-lib and FFmpeg are vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= xine is a GPL high-performance, portable and reusable multimedia playback engine. xine-lib is xine's core engine. FFmpeg is a very fast video and audio converter and is used in xine-lib.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/xine-lib < 1.1.1-r3 >= 1.1.1-r3 2 media-video/ffmpeg ...

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