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MPlayer Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory:	SA13508	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2004-12-17
Last Update:	2004-12-22
Popularity:	13,558 views

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

Software:	MPlayer 1.x

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CVE reference:	CVE-2004-1285 CVE-2004-1309 CVE-2004-1310 CVE-2004-1311

Description: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in MPlayer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. 1) An integer overflow in the "real_setup_and_get_header()" function when processing RTSP streams can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by passing an extremely large "Content-Length" for a stream. 2) Boundary errors in some functions within the MMST streaming code can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows via a specially crafted files. 3) A boundary error in the "demux_open_bmp()" function when parsing bitmaps can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted bitmap image containing an overly large value in the "biClrUsed" field. 4) An unspecified boundary error within the PNM streaming code can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow. 5) An unspecified boundary error within mp3lib can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow. The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 1.0pre5 and the CVS version. Prior versions may also be affected. Solution: The vulnerabilities have been fixed in version 1.0pre5try2. http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html Provided and/or discovered by: 1-3) Discovered by anonymous person and reported via iDEFENSE. 2) Ariel Berkman 4+5) Reported by vendor. Changelog: 2004-12-22: Added CVE references. Original Advisory: MPlayer: http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-announce/2004-December/000055.html iDEFENSE: http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=166&type=vulnerabilities http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=167&type=vulnerabilities http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=168&type=vulnerabilities Ariel Berkman: http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/mplayer.txt

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