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Gentoo: 200803-16 Moderate: MPlayer Remote Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2008
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A series of security flaws identified in VLC Media Player could lead to unauthorized remote code execution. Users are advised to update their software immediately.
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...
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