Gentoo: 200612-02 Normal: xine-lib Buffer Overflow Threat
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December 9, 2006
xine-lib is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the Real Media input plugin, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200612-02
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: xine-lib: Buffer overflow
Date: December 09, 2006
Bugs: #156645
ID: 200612-02
Synopsis
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xine-lib is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the Real Media input
plugin, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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xine is a 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-r3 >= 1.1.2-r3
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A possible buffer overflow has been reported in the Real Media input
plugin.
Impact
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An attacker could exploit this vulnerabili...
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