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Posted on 16 February 2008
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Multiple Remote Arbitrary Execution Vulnerabilities in Mplayer [MU-200802-01]
February 14, 2008
http://labs.musecurity.com/advisories.html
Affected Products/Versions:
MPlayer 1.0rc2 and SVN before r25824 (Sun Jan 20 20:58:02 2008 UTC). Older
versions are probably affected, but they were not checked.
Product Overview:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu
"MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation).
It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia,
Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by
many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD,
3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies.."
Vulnerability Details:
URL IPv6 Address Parsing Remote Heap Overflow:
A heap overflow condition exists in the parsing of IPv6 addresses, allowing
for arbitrary code execution.
CDDB Remote Stack Overflow:
A remote attacker may execute arbitrary code on a client machine by causing
a specially crafted CDDB response to be sent to the client.
Vendor Response / Solution:
Fixed in MPlayer SVN on Sun Jan 20 20:43:46 2008 UTC.
History:
<10/07/07> - First contact with vendor
<10/08/07> - Vendor acknowledges vulnerability
<02/14/08> - Advisory released
Credit:
This vulnerability was discovered by Adam Bozanich of the Mu Security
research team.
http://labs.musecurity.com/pgpkey.txt
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