DSA-1313-1 mplayer -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1313-1 mplayer -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

19 Jun 2007

Affected Packages:

mplayer

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-2948.

More information:

Stefan Cornelius and Reimar Doeffinger discovered that the MPlayer movie player performs insufficient boundary checks when accessing CDDB data, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include MPlayer packages.

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~rc1-14.

We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

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

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.orig.tar.gz

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

HPPA:

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

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch4_sparc.deb

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