Gentoo: 200702-11 Normal: MPlayer Buffer Overflow Leading To DoS

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200702-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: MPlayer: Buffer overflow Date: February 27, 2007 Bugs: #159727 ID: 200702-11

Synopsis ======= A buffer overflow was found in MPlayer's RTSP plugin that could lead to a Denial of Service or arbitrary code execution.
Background ========= MPlayer is a media player capable of playing multiple media formats.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/mplayer < 1.0_rc1-r2 >= 1.0_rc1-r2
========== When checking for matching asm rules in the asmrp.c code, the results are stored in a fixed-size array without boundary checks which may allow a buffer overflow.
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