gxine: Format string vulnerability

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
media-video/gxine	< 0.4.4	revision >= 0.3.3-r2, revision >= 0.4.1-r1, >= 0.4.4	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #93532

A format string vulnerability in gxine could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

2. Impact Information

gxine is a GTK+ and xine-lib based media player.

Exworm discovered that gxine insecurely implements formatted printing in the hostname decoding function.

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a carefully crafted file with gxine, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.

3. Resolution Information

There is no known workaround at this time.

All gxine users should upgrade to the latest available version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose media-video/gxine

4. References

Page updated May 26, 2005

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