Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1552-1 mplayer -- missing input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 19 Apr 2008
- Affected Packages:
- mplayer
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1558.
- More information:
-
It was discovered that the MPlayer movie player performs insufficient input sanitising on SDP session data, leading to potential execution of arbitrary code through a malformed multimedia stream.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~rc2-10.
We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)
- 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~rc1-12etch3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch3.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer-doc_1.0~rc1-12etch3_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch3_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch3_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch3_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch3_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch3_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch3_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch3_s390.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.