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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-05 Normal: xine-lib Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2006
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Gentoo Linux security notice regarding xine-lib vulnerabilities revealing users to potential remote code execution threats. Immediate upgrade suggested.
A buffer overflow has been found in the libmms library shipped with xine-lib, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200607-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: xine-lib: Buffer overflow Date: July 20, 2006 Bugs: #139319 ID: 200607-07

Synopsis ======= A buffer overflow has been found in the libmms library shipped with xine-lib, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= xine-lib is the core library of xine, a multimedia player.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/xine-lib < 1.1.2-r2 >= 1.1.2-r2
========== There is a stack based overflow in the libmms library included with xine-lib which can be triggered by malicious use of the send_command, string_utf16, get_data a...

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