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Gentoo: GLSA-200802-12 Alert: xine-lib Buffer Overflow Issue Found

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2008
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A serious xine-lib vulnerability has been found in Gentoo Linux, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems if exploited by users.
xine-lib is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows when processing FLAC and ASF streams.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200802-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: xine-lib: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Date: February 26, 2008 Bugs: #209106, #208100 ID: 200802-12

Synopsis ======= xine-lib is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows when processing FLAC and ASF streams.
Background ========= xine-lib is the core library package for the xine media player.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/xine-lib < 1.1.10.1 >= 1.1.10.1
========== Damian Frizza and Alfredo Ortega (Core Security Technologies) discovered a stack-based buffer overflow within the open_flac_file() function in the file demux_flac.c...

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