Gentoo: 200604-16 Moderate: xine-lib Buffer Overflow Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: xine-lib: Buffer overflow vulnerability Date: April 26, 2006 Bugs: #128838 ID: 200604-16

Synopsis ======= xine-lib contains a buffer overflow vulnerability which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= xine-lib is the xine core engine. xine is a free multimedia player. It plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs, and can also decode other common multimedia formats.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 xine-lib < 1.1.2_pre20060328-r1 >= 1.1.2_pre20060328-r1
========== Federico L. Bossi Bonin discovered that when handling MPEG streams xine-lib fails to make ...