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MPlayer Two Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA24444
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Release Date:
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2007-03-13
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Last Update:
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2007-03-14
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Popularity:
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9,393 views
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Critical:
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Highly 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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Vendor Workaround
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| Software: | MPlayer 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-1246
CVE-2007-1387
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in MPlayer, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors in the "DMO_VideoDecoder_Open()" function in loader/dmo/DMO_VideoDecoder.c and in the "DS_VideoDecoder_Open()" function in loader/dshow/DS_VideoDecoder.c. These can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows and may allow execution of arbitrary code via a specially crafted media file.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.0rc1. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
The vulnerabilities are fixed in the SVN repository.
Do not open media files from untrusted sources..
Provided and/or discovered by:
Moritz Jodeit
Changelog:
2007-03-14: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-March/052738.html
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