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[Thomas Houssin <thomas.houssin AT gmail.com>]

Synopsis
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A heap overflow in MPlayer might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and
non-x86 CPUs, see the documentation).

Description
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CAN-2005-2718:
Buffer overflow in ad_pcm.c in MPlayer 1.0pre7 and earlier allows remote
attackers to execute arbitrary code via a video file with an audio
header containing a large value in a strf parameter.

Affected packages
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mplayer in stable-rc 0.2 and stable 0.1 grimoires is affected (test
grimoire users, please check you are running 1.0pre7try2 version).
This is now fixed in all grimoires.

Resolution
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All mplayer users should upgrade to the latest available version:
         # scribe update
         # cast -c mplayer

References
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   [ 1 ] 2005.08.26, Friday :: heap overflow in ad_pcm.c
         http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html

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Thomas Houssin

Security Team Leader Source Mage GNU/Linux (http://www.sourcemage.org)
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