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Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that mplayer, a multimedia player, is vulnerable to several integer overflows in the Real video stream demuxing code. These flaws could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (a crash) or potentially the execution of arbitrary code by supplying a maliciously crafted video file.. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1644-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Devin Carraway October 05, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : mplayer Vulnerability : integer overflow Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-3827 Debian Bug : 500683 Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that mplayer, a multimedia player, is vulnerable to several integer overflows in the Real video stream demuxing code. These flaws could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (a crash) or potentially the execution of arbitrary code by supplying a maliciously crafted video file. For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch5. For he unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0~rc2-18. We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer packages. Upgrade instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - -------------------------------Debian (stable) - ---------------Stable updates areavailable for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 86658 cd099ed406a7c844930c9887d8982a52 Size/MD5 checksum: 10286260 815482129b79cb9390904b145c5def6c Size/MD5 checksum: 1265 b270973c3ce8e7fbfca6f9cd3eb66425 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 2047298 17e990bdca10c40756b82a9dc5a2e265 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 4707948 f431548b126d4341bb696db81246bdd4 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 4370114 98533d1a687b80c2e0986150f8ce8236 arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 4325478 00ad261cf9de27068b7cb734726547b4 hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 4384816 343f46588519430c765ea7a715418737 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 4421394 88000ce453707cd19da6cc8c197a5333 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 5842440 95e5f58d87ebe234dd448389ce87f009 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 4274920 7a4d77fad46563b8ae3714a4a560e9dd mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 4279550 57fe11ca3fc351267fa209cf6e90a6ff powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 4342366 043f7ab2732751f06da1eb06220fc613 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 4162914 fbbc3861141a158ff4e73f7367ab2b1c sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 4038434 a397ab5d30990322dcb76ab23d681f77 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb https://www.debian.org/security/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Buffer overflow in VLC may result in service interruption or unauthorized command execution.Immediate patching advised.. Mplayer Integer Overflow, Debian Security Update, Multimedia Threat, Urgent Package Upgrade. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
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