DSA-657-1 xine-lib -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-657-1 xine-lib -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

25 Jan 2005

Affected Packages:

xine-lib

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 11205.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1379.

More information:

A heap overflow has been discovered in the DVD subpicture decoder of xine-lib. An attacker could cause arbitrary code to be executed on the victims host by supplying a malicious MPEG. By tricking users to view a malicious network stream, this is remotely exploitable.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.8-2woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1-rc6a-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxine packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/xine-lib_0.9.8-2woody3.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/xine-lib_0.9.8-2woody3.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/xine-lib_0.9.8.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_0.9.8-2woody3_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine0_0.9.8-2woody3_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_0.9.8-2woody3_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine0_0.9.8-2woody3_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_0.9.8-2woody3_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine0_0.9.8-2woody3_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_0.9.8-2woody3_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine0_0.9.8-2woody3_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_0.9.8-2woody3_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine0_0.9.8-2woody3_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_0.9.8-2woody3_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine0_0.9.8-2woody3_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_0.9.8-2woody3_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine0_0.9.8-2woody3_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_0.9.8-2woody3_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine0_0.9.8-2woody3_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_0.9.8-2woody3_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine0_0.9.8-2woody3_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_0.9.8-2woody3_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine0_0.9.8-2woody3_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_0.9.8-2woody3_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine0_0.9.8-2woody3_sparc.deb

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