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Gentoo: GLSA-200707-07 Moderate: MPlayer Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2007
Scroller Gentoo
Arch Linux Security Advisory has issued a notice about VLC media player critical vulnerability leading to potential arbitrary code execution; patch promptly.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, possibly allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

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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 ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, possibly allowing for the remote 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 < 1.0.20070622 >= 1.0.20070622
========== Stefan Cornelius and Reimar Döffinger of Secunia Research discovered several boundary errors in the functions cddb_query_parse(), cddb_pars...

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