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Gentoo: GLSA-200705-21 Normal: MPlayer Buffer Overflow Detected

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Calendar Grey May 30, 2007
Scroller Gentoo
Recent findings indicate that MPlayer has two security flaws that may facilitate the execution of unauthorized code, necessitating user intervention to resolve.
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, each one could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

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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 ======= Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, each one could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= MPlayer is a media player incuding support for a wide range of audio and video formats.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/mplayer < 1.0.20070321 >= 1.0.20070321
========== 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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