MPlayer: GUI filename handling overflow

MPlayer: GUI filename handling overflow When compiled with GUI support MPlayer is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable buffer overflow attack. MPlayer 2004-08-01 2006-05-22 55456 remote 1.0_pre4-r7 1.0_pre4-r7

MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats.

The MPlayer GUI code contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities, and at least one in the TranslateFilename() function is exploitable.

By enticing a user to play a file with a carefully crafted filename an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running MPlayer.

To work around this issue, users can compile MPlayer without GUI support by disabling the gtk USE flag. All users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest available version of MPlayer.

All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7"
    # emerge ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7"

Bugtraq Announcement Open-Security Announcement CVE-2004-0659 koon jaervosz