DSA-1005-1 xine-lib -- buffer overflow

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2005-4048  

Simon Kilvington discovered that specially crafted PNG images can trigger a heap overflow in libavcodec, the multimedia library of ffmpeg, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. xine-lib includes a local copy of libavcodec. The old stable distribution (woody) isn't affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1.5. We recommend that you upgrade your xine-lib package.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1005-1 xine-lib -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
16 Mar 2006
Affected Packages:
xine-lib
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 342208.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-4048.
More information:

Simon Kilvington discovered that specially crafted PNG images can trigger a heap overflow in libavcodec, the multimedia library of ffmpeg, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. xine-lib includes a local copy of libavcodec.

The old stable distribution (woody) isn't affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1.5.

We recommend that you upgrade your xine-lib package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/xine-lib_1.0.1-1sarge2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/xine-lib_1.0.1-1sarge2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/xine-lib_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_1.0.1-1sarge2_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine1_1.0.1-1sarge2_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_1.0.1-1sarge2_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine1_1.0.1-1sarge2_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_1.0.1-1sarge2_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine1_1.0.1-1sarge2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_1.0.1-1sarge2_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine1_1.0.1-1sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_1.0.1-1sarge2_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine1_1.0.1-1sarge2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_1.0.1-1sarge2_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine1_1.0.1-1sarge2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_1.0.1-1sarge2_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine1_1.0.1-1sarge2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_1.0.1-1sarge2_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine1_1.0.1-1sarge2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_1.0.1-1sarge2_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine1_1.0.1-1sarge2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_1.0.1-1sarge2_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine1_1.0.1-1sarge2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_1.0.1-1sarge2_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine1_1.0.1-1sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine-dev_1.0.1-1sarge2_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xine-lib/libxine1_1.0.1-1sarge2_sparc.deb

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