Gentoo: 200803-16 Moderate: MPlayer Remote Execution Threat
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March 10, 2008
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, possibly allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200803-16
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: MPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows
Date: March 10, 2008
Bugs: #208566
ID: 200803-16
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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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-video/mplayer < 1.0_rc2_p25993 >= 1.0_rc2_p25993
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The following errors have been discovered in MPlayer:
* Felipe Manzano and Anibal Sacco (Core...Read the Full Advisory
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