Gentoo Linux: GLSA 200609-08 Normal: xine-lib Buffer Overflow Threat
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September 13, 2006
xine-lib is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200609-08
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: xine-lib: Buffer overflows
Date: September 13, 2006
Bugs: #133520
ID: 200609-08
Synopsis
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xine-lib is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows that could be
exploited to execute arbitrary code.
Background
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xine is a high performance, portable and reusable multimedia playback
engine. xine-lib is xine's core engine.
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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xine-lib contains buffer overflows in the processing of AVI.
Additionally, xine-lib is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the HTTP
plugin ...
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