DSA-1552-1 mplayer -- missing input sanitising

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1552-1 mplayer -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

19 Apr 2008

Affected Packages:

mplayer

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1558.

More information:

It was discovered that the MPlayer movie player performs insufficient input sanitising on SDP session data, leading to potential execution of arbitrary code through a malformed multimedia stream.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~rc2-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)

Source:

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~rc1-12etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch4.dsc

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer-doc_1.0~rc1-12etch4_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch4_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch4_s390.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.