Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1782-1 mplayer -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 29 Apr 2009
- Affected Packages:
- mplayer
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 508803.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0385, CVE-2008-4866, CVE-2008-5616. - More information:
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mplayer, a movie player for Unix-like systems. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2009-0385
It was discovered that watching a malformed 4X movie file could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-4866
It was discovered that multiple buffer overflows could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2008-5616
It was discovered that watching a malformed TwinVQ file could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch7.
For the stable distribution (lenny), mplayer links against ffmpeg-debian.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), mplayer links against ffmpeg-debian.
We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer packages.
- CVE-2009-0385
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer-doc_1.0~rc1-12etch7_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_mips.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch7_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.