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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200803-16">
+ <title>MPlayer: Multiple buffer overflows</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer, possibly allowing
+ for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">mplayer</product>
+ <announced>2008-03-10</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2008-03-10</revised>
+ <bug>208566</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="media-video/mplayer" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.0_rc2_p25993</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.0_rc2_p25993</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>
+ The following errors have been discovered in MPlayer:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Felipe Manzano and Anibal Sacco (Core Security Technologies)
+ reported an array indexing error in the file libmpdemux/demux_mov.c
+ when parsing MOV file headers (CVE-2008-0485).</li>
+ <li>Damian Frizza
+ and Alfredo Ortega (Core Security Technologies) reported a boundary
+ error in the file libmpdemux/demux_audio.c when parsing FLAC comments
+ (CVE-2008-0486).</li>
+ <li>Adam Bozanich (Mu Security) reported boundary
+ errors in the cddb_parse_matches_list() and cddb_query_parse()
+ functions in the file stream_cddb.c when parsing CDDB album titles
+ (CVE-2008-0629) and in the url_scape_string() function in the file
+ stream/url.c when parsing URLS (CVE-2008-0630).</li>
+ </ul>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file,
+ possibly 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_rc2_p25993"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0485">CVE-2008-0485</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0486">CVE-2008-0486</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0629">CVE-2008-0629</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0630">CVE-2008-0630</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-02-19T20:10:11Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-02-19T20:13:04Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-03-07T23:38:09Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>