Gentoo: GLSA-200705-21 Normal: MPlayer Buffer Overflow Detected
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May 30, 2007
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, each one could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200705-21
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: MPlayer: Two buffer overflows
Date: May 30, 2007
Bugs: #168917
ID: 200705-21
Synopsis
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Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, each one could
lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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MPlayer is a media player incuding support for a wide range of audio
and video formats.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-video/mplayer < 1.0.20070321 >= 1.0.20070321
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A buffer overflow has been reported in the DMO_VideoDecoder_Open()
function in file loader/dmo/DMO_VideoDecoder.c. Another buffer overflow
has been reported ...
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