Gentoo: GLSA-202304-01 Important: VLC Media Player Security Risk
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April 5, 2006
Kaffeine is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-04
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Kaffeine: Buffer overflow
Date: April 05, 2006
Bugs: #127326
ID: 200604-04
Synopsis
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Kaffeine is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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Kaffeine is a graphical front-end for the xine-lib multimedia library.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-video/kaffeine < 0.7.1-r2 >= 0.7.1-r2
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Kaffeine uses an unchecked buffer when fetching remote RAM playlists
via HTTP.
Impact
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A remote attacker could entice a user to play a specially-crafted RAM
playlist resulting in the e...
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