Gentoo: GLSA-200707-07 Moderate: MPlayer Remote Code Execution
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July 25, 2007
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, possibly allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200707-07
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: MPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows
Date: July 24, 2007
Bugs: #181097
ID: 200707-07
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, possibly
allowing for the remote 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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1 media-video/mplayer < 1.0.20070622 >= 1.0.20070622
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Stefan Cornelius and Reimar Döffinger of Secunia Research discovered
several boundary errors in the functions cddb_query_parse(),
cddb_pars...
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