1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200609-08 / xine-lib |
| Release Date | September 13, 2006 |
| Latest Revision | September 13, 2006: 01 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| media-libs/xine-lib | < 1.1.2-r2 | >= 1.1.2-r2 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #133520
xine-lib is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
xine is a high performance, portable and reusable multimedia playback engine. xine-lib is xine's core engine.
xine-lib contains buffer overflows in the processing of AVI. Additionally, xine-lib is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the HTTP plugin (xineplug_inp_http.so) via a long reply from an HTTP server.
An attacker could trigger the buffer overflow vulnerabilities by enticing a user to load a specially crafted AVI file in xine. This might result in the execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running xine. Additionally, a remote HTTP server serving a xine client a specially crafted reply could crash xine and possibly execute 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-1.1.2-r2" |