xine-lib PNM and Real RTSP Client Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA13496
Release Date: 2004-12-16
Last Update: 2004-12-22
Popularity: 12,648 views

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

Software:xine-lib 0.x
xine-lib 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-1187
CVE-2004-1188


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in xine-lib, where some have an unspecified impact and others can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) A boundary error exists in the "pnm_get_chunk()" function in "pnm.c" when handling the "PNA_TAG" chunk type. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by tricking a user into connecting to a malicious PNM server in an application linked against the vulnerable library.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

2) A signedness error exists in the "pnm_get_chunk()" function in "pnm.c" when handling chunk sizes for certain chunk types. This can be exploited by tricking a user into connecting to a malicious PNM server in an application linked against the vulnerable library.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Some unspecified errors have also been reported in the Real RTSP clients.

Solution:
Update to version 1-rc8.
http://xinehq.de/index.php/download

Provided and/or discovered by:
1-2) Discovered by anonymous person and reported via iDEFENSE.

Changelog:
2004-12-22: Updated advisory with information provided by iDEFENSE.

Original Advisory:
iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=176&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=177&type=vulnerabilities


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