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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200409-30
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Severity: Normal
Title: xine-lib: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: September 22, 2004
Bugs: #64348
ID: 200409-30
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Synopsis
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xine-lib contains several vulnerabilities potentially allowing the
execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create
multimedia frontends.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-libs/xine-lib <= 1_rc5-r3 >= 1_rc6
Description
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xine-lib contains two stack-based overflows and one heap-based
overflow. In the code reading VCD disc labels, the ISO disc label is
copied into an unprotected stack buffer of fixed size. Also, there is a
buffer overflow in the code that parses subtitles and prepares them for
display (XSA-2004-4). Finally, xine-lib contains a heap-based overflow
in the DVD sub-picture decoder (XSA-2004-5).
(Please note that the VCD MRL issue mentioned in XSA-2004-4 was fixed
with GLSA 200408-18.)
Impact
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With carefully-crafted VCDs, DVDs, MPEGs or subtitles, an attacker may
cause xine-lib to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the
user.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All xine-lib users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv ">=media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc6"
# emerge ">=media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc6"
References
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[ 1 ] BugTraq Announcement (XSA-2004-4)
[ 2 ] BugTraq Announcement (XSA-2004-5)
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200409-30
Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/.
License
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Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/
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