Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1644-1 mplayer -- integer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 05 Oct 2008
- Affected Packages:
- mplayer
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 500683.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-3827. - More information:
-
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 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 the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0~rc2-18.
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~rc1-12etch5.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~rc1-12etch5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer-doc_1.0~rc1-12etch5_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.