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Gentoo: GLSA-200808-01 Normal: Xine-Lib Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The recent Gentoo alert GLSA-202311-15 highlights vulnerability issues in VLC media player due to potential buffer overflow risks affecting streaming content and user data safety.
xine-lib is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows when processing media streams.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200808-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: xine-lib: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Date: August 06, 2008 Bugs: #213039, #214270, #218059 ID: 200808-01

Synopsis ======= xine-lib is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows when processing media streams.
Background ========= xine-lib is the core library package for the xine media player, and other players such as Amarok, Codeine/Dragon Player and Kaffeine.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/xine-lib < 1.1.13 >= 1.1.13
========== Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in xine-lib:
* Alin Rad Pop of Secunia reported ...

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