Slackware 11.0 SSA:2007-109-02 Critical: Xine-Lib Buffer Overflow
slackware
April 20, 2007
New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: Upgraded to xine-lib-1.1.6. This fixes overflows in xine-lib in some little-used media formats in xine-lib < 1.1.5 and other bugs in xine-lib < 1.1.6. The overflows in xine-lib < 1.1.5 could definitely cause an application using xine-lib to crash, and it is theorized that a malicious media file could be made to run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1246 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com?
Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site
for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading
from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 10.0:
Updated package for Slackware 10.1:
Updated package for Slackware 10.2:
Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 10.0 package:
a4fac5c1692d7e3e693d33485d8f238b xine-lib-1.1.6-i686-1_slack10.0.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package:
f1b482bc314e827946be08249a7a1f67 xine-lib-1.1.6-i686-1_slack10.1.tgz
Slackware 10.2 package:
84cef008726751072a0ebcfeb861e4fa xine-lib-1.1.6-i686-1_slack10.2.tgz
Slackware 11.0 package:
a9001ed332e1f09c53e2de90b9ff652a xine-lib-1.1.6-i686-1_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware -current package:
751958cb4eb3067130633294af25f365 xine-lib-1.1.6-i686-2.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg xine-lib-1.1.6-i686-1_slack11.0.tgz
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