Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1313-1 mplayer -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 19 Jun 2007
- Affected Packages:
- mplayer
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-2948.
- More information:
-
Stefan Cornelius and Reimar Doeffinger discovered that the MPlayer movie player performs insufficient boundary checks when accessing CDDB data, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include MPlayer packages.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-14.
We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1.diff.gz
- 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~rc1-12etch1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer-doc_1.0~rc1-12etch1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_ia64.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.