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
When compiled with GUI support MPlayer is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable buffer overflow attack.
MPlayer is a media player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats.
The MPlayer GUI code contains several buffer overflow vulnerabilities, and at least one in the TranslateFilename() function is exploitable.
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.
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.
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" |