Gentoo: GLSA-200603-03 Normal: MPlayer Integer Overflows Risk Execution
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March 4, 2006
MPlayer is vulnerable to integer overflows in FFmpeg and ASF decoding that could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200603-03
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: MPlayer: Multiple integer overflows
Date: March 04, 2006
Bugs: #115760, #122029
ID: 200603-03
Synopsis
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MPlayer is vulnerable to integer overflows in FFmpeg and ASF decoding
that could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file
formats.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-video/mplayer < 1.0.20060217 >= 1.0.20060217
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MPlayer makes use of the FFmpeg library, which is vulnerable to a heap
overflow in the avcodec_default_get_buffer() funct...
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