__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN MPlayer Vulnerability [Debian Security Advisory DSA-1313-1] June 21, 2007 19:00 GMT Number R-280 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: The MPlayer movie player performs insufficient boundary checks when accessing CDDB data, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. PLATFORM: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) DAMAGE: Might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. An attacker who can get a user to open a ASSESSMENT: specially crafted video file could execute arbitrary code as the logged in user. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-280.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1313 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2007-2948 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Debian Security Advisory DSA-1313-1 *****] Debian Security Advisory DSA-1313-1 mplayer -- buffer overflow Date Reported: 19 Jun 2007 Affected Packages: mplayer Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-2948. More information: Stefan Cornelius and Reimar Doeffinger discovered that the MPlayer movie player performs insufficient boundary checks when accessing CDDB data, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include MPlayer packages. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-14. We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer package. Fixed in: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) Source: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1.dsc http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1.diff.gz http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1.orig.tar.gz Architecture-independent component: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer-doc_1.0~rc1-12etch1_all.deb Alpha: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_alpha.deb AMD64: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_amd64.deb ARM: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_arm.deb HPPA: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_hppa.deb Intel IA-32: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_i386.deb Intel IA-64: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_ia64.deb Big endian MIPS: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_mips.deb Little endian MIPS: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_mipsel.deb PowerPC: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_powerpc.deb IBM S/390: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_s390.deb Sun Sparc: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch1_sparc.deb MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. 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