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Gentoo: GLSA-200605-01 Moderate: MPlayer Heap Overflow Advisory

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Calendar Grey May 1, 2006
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Gentoo users of MPlayer are urged to update their software to mitigate potential heap overflow vulnerabilities. For further information, refer to GLSA 200605-01.
MPlayer contains multiple integer overflows that may lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200605-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: MPlayer: Heap-based buffer overflow Date: May 01, 2006 Bugs: #127969 ID: 200605-01

Synopsis ======= MPlayer contains multiple integer overflows that may lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Background ========= MPlayer is a media player that supports many multimedia file types.
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