MPlayer: GUI filename handling overflow

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200408-01 / MPlayer
Release Date	August 01, 2004
Latest Revision	May 22, 2006: 02
Impact	normal
Exploitable	remote

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
media-video/mplayer	< 1.0_pre4-r7	>= 1.0_pre4-r7	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #55456

Synopsis

When compiled with GUI support MPlayer is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable buffer overflow attack.

2. Impact Information

Background

MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats.

Description

The MPlayer GUI code contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities, and at least one in the TranslateFilename() function is exploitable.

Impact

By enticing a user to play a file with a carefully crafted filename an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running MPlayer.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

To work around this issue, users can compile MPlayer without GUI support by disabling the gtk USE flag. All users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest available version of MPlayer.

Resolution

All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge sync

# emerge -pv ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7"
# emerge ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7"

4. References

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