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Bug 257381

Summary: media-video/mplayer <1.0_rc2_p28450 type conversion vulnerability in libavformat/4xm.c
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) <rbu>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: media-video
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2009-004.txt
Whiteboard: B2 [glsa]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 257217    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-02 13:01:35 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #257217 +++

From the advisory:
FFmpeg contains a type conversion vulnerability while parsing malformed 4X 
movie files. The vulnerability may be exploited by a (remote) attacker to 
execute arbitrary code in the context of FFmpeg or an application using 
the FFmpeg library.

Upstream has fixed this in svn r16846, i haven't found a release yet.
Comment 1 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-03 06:13:39 UTC
mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28450 in the tree
Comment 2 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-04 14:26:49 UTC
Arches, please test and mark stable:
=media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28450
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
Comment 3 Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-04 20:14:57 UTC
ppc64
Comment 4 Markus Meier gentoo-dev 2009-02-04 21:39:01 UTC
amd64/x86 stable
Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-05 02:35:41 UTC
Stable for HPPA.
Comment 6 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-07 15:26:33 UTC
Stable on alpha.
Comment 7 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-09 14:30:11 UTC
ia64/sparc stable
Comment 8 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-11 17:11:23 UTC
ppc stable
Comment 9 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-03-20 08:32:59 UTC
GLSA 200903-33