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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200705-21">
+ <title>MPlayer: Two buffer overflows</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, each one could lead to
+ the execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">mplayer</product>
+ <announced>2007-05-30</announced>
+ <revised count="02">2007-10-12</revised>
+ <bug>168917</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="media-video/mplayer" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.0.20070321</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="lt">1.0</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.20070321</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ MPlayer is a media player incuding support for a wide range of audio
+ and video formats.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ A buffer overflow has been reported in the DMO_VideoDecoder_Open()
+ function in file loader/dmo/DMO_VideoDecoder.c. Another buffer overflow
+ has been reported in the DS_VideoDecoder_Open() function in file
+ loader/dshow/DS_VideoDecoder.c.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted video
+ file, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the
+ privileges of the user running MPlayer.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-video/mplayer-1.0.20070321"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1246">CVE-2007-1246</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1387">CVE-2007-1387</uri>
+ <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-09.xml">GLSA 200704-09</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-05-20T07:29:09Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-05-20T07:29:20Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-05-21T13:01:40Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>