xine-lib MPEG Stream Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19853
Release Date: 2006-04-27
Last Update: 2008-03-17
Popularity: 8,581 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:xine-lib 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1664
CVE-2008-1110


Description:
Federico L. Bossi Bonin has reported a vulnerability in xine-lib, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is cause due to a boundary error within the handling of MPEG streams. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and may allow arbitrary code execution via a specially-crafted MPEG file.

The vulnerability has been reported in libxine 1.14 that is distributed in xine-lib 1.1.1. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 1.1.10.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Federico L. Bossi Bonin

Changelog:
2008-01-29: Updated "Solution" section.
2008-03-17: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/1641


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