1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200411-14 / kaffeine gxine |
| Release Date | November 07, 2004 |
| Latest Revision | May 22, 2006: 02 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| media-video/kaffeine | < 0.5_rc1-r1 | >= 0.5_rc1-r1, revision >= 0.4.3b-r1 | All supported architectures |
| media-video/gxine | < 0.3.3-r1 | >= 0.3.3-r1 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #69663, #70055
Kaffeine and gxine both contain a buffer overflow that can be exploited when accessing content from a malicious HTTP server with specially crafted headers.
Kaffeine and gxine are graphical front-ends for xine-lib multimedia library.
KF of Secure Network Operations has discovered an overflow that occurs during the Content-Type header processing of Kaffeine. The vulnerable code in Kaffeine is reused from gxine, making gxine vulnerable as well.
An attacker could create a specially-crafted Content-type header from a malicious HTTP server, and crash a user's instance of Kaffeine or gxine, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Kaffeine users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/kaffeine-0.4.3b-r1" |
All gxine users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.2: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/gxine-0.3.3-r1" |