Gentoo: GLSA-200708-02 Normal: Xvid Array Indexing Risk of Remote Execution
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August 8, 2007
Several array indexing vulnerabilities were discovered in Xvid, possibly allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200708-02
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Xvid: Array indexing vulnerabilities
Date: August 08, 2007
Bugs: #183145
ID: 200708-02
Synopsis
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Several array indexing vulnerabilities were discovered in Xvid,
possibly allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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Xvid is a popular open source video codec licensed under the GPL.
Affected packages
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1 media-libs/xvid < 1.1.3 >= 1.1.3
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Trixter Jack discovered an array indexing error in the
get_intra_block() function in the file src/bitstream/mbcoding.c. The
get_inter_block_h263() and g...
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