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Gentoo: GLSA-200602-01 Normal Severity: GStreamer FFmpeg Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 5, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The GStreamer FFmpeg module for Gentoo has a critical security flaw involving a buffer overflow, potentially enabling malicious actors to execute arbitrary code.
The GStreamer FFmpeg plugin is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200602-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: GStreamer FFmpeg plugin: Heap-based buffer overflow Date: February 05, 2006 Bugs: #119512 ID: 200602-01

Synopsis ======= The GStreamer FFmpeg plugin is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= The GStreamer FFmpeg plugin uses code from the FFmpeg library to provide fast colorspace conversion and multimedia decoders to the GStreamer open source media framework.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg < 0.8.7-r1 >= 0.8.7-r1
========== The GStreamer FFmpeg plugi...

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