Gentoo: GLSA-200601-06 Normal: xine-lib and FFmpeg Buffer Overflow Risk
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January 10, 2006
xine-lib and FFmpeg are vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Summary
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
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xine-lib and FFmpeg are vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may be
exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Background
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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
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-libs/xine-lib < 1.1.1-r3 >= 1.1.1-r3
2 media-video/ffmpeg ...
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