Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1782-1 mplayer -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
29 Apr 2009
Affected Packages:
mplayer
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 508803.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0385, CVE-2008-4866, CVE-2008-5616.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mplayer, a movie player for Unix-like systems. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2009-0385

    It was discovered that watching a malformed 4X movie file could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2008-4866

    It was discovered that multiple buffer overflows could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2008-5616

    It was discovered that watching a malformed TwinVQ file could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch7.

For the stable distribution (lenny), mplayer links against ffmpeg-debian.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), mplayer links against ffmpeg-debian.

We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer-doc_1.0~rc1-12etch7_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_mips.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.