1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200510-08 / xine-lib |
| Release Date | October 08, 2005 |
| Latest Revision | October 08, 2005: 01 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| media-libs/xine-lib | < 1.1.0-r5 | >= 1.1.0-r5, revision >= 1.0.1-r4, revision >= 1_rc8-r2 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #107854
xine-lib contains a format string error in CDDB response handling that may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create multimedia frontends. It includes functions to retrieve information about audio CD contents from public CDDB servers.
Ulf Harnhammar discovered a format string bug in the routines handling CDDB server response contents.
An attacker could submit malicious information about an audio CD to a public CDDB server (or impersonate a public CDDB server). When the victim plays this CD on a multimedia frontend relying on xine-lib, it could end up executing arbitrary code.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All xine-lib users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose media-libs/xine-lib |