xine-lib: Buffer overflow vulnerability

xine-lib: Buffer overflow vulnerability xine-lib contains a buffer overflow vulnerability which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. xine-lib April 26, 2006 April 26, 2006: 01 128838 remote 1.1.2_pre20060328-r1 1.1.2_pre20060328-r1

xine-lib is the xine core engine. xine is a free multimedia player. It plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs, and can also decode other common multimedia formats.

Federico L. Bossi Bonin discovered that when handling MPEG streams xine-lib fails to make a proper boundary check of the input data supplied by the user before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer.

A remote attacker could entice a user to play a specially-crafted MPEG file, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All xine-lib users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.2_pre20060328-r1"

CVE-2006-1664 koon adir koon