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MPlayer ASF File Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA18718
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Release Date:
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2006-02-07
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Last Update:
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2006-02-09
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Popularity:
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15,145 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | MPlayer 1.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
AFI Security Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in mplayer, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a user's system.
Integer overflow errors exist in the "new_demux_packet()" function in "libmpdemux/demuxer.h" and the "demux_asf_read_packet()" function in "libmpdemux/demux_asf.c" when allocating memory to copy data from an ".asf" file. This can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows via a specially crafted ".asf" file with an overly large value in the packet length field.
The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 1.0pre7try2. Other versions may also be affected.
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