Gentoo: GLSA-202310-05 Normal: xine-lib Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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July 20, 2006
A buffer overflow has been found in the libmms library shipped with xine-lib, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
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
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A buffer overflow has been found in the libmms library shipped with
xine-lib, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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xine-lib is the core library of xine, a multimedia player.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-libs/xine-lib < 1.1.2-r2 >= 1.1.2-r2
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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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