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Gentoo Linux: 200801-12 Alert: xine-lib Heap Overflow Exploit

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2008
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The advisory GLSA-200801-12 from Gentoo highlights a vulnerability in xine-lib, specifically related to a buffer overflow that can occur when handling RTSP streams.
xine-lib is vulnerable to multiple heap-based buffer overflows when processing RTSP streams.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200801-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: xine-lib: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Date: January 27, 2008 Bugs: #205197 ID: 200801-12

Synopsis ======= xine-lib is vulnerable to multiple heap-based buffer overflows when processing RTSP streams.
Background ========= xine-lib is the core library package for the xine media player.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/xine-lib < 1.1.9.1 >= 1.1.9.1
========== Luigi Auriemma reported that xine-lib does not properly check boundaries when processing SDP attributes of RTSP streams, leading to heap-based buffer overflows.
Impact ===...

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