Bug 46246 – media-video/mplayer (all versions >=0.60pre1) Exploitable remote buffer overflow vulnerability in the HTTP parser

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2004-03-30 08:14:27 UTC]

The bugreport on mplayerhq is dated to 2004.03.30
see URL


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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[Comment 1 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2004-03-30 08:16:22 UTC]

media-video herd -- please review/comment/patch as appropriate.

[Comment 2 Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) 2004-03-30 21:36:54 UTC]

more info:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html

2004.03.30, Tuesday :: Exploitable remote buffer overflow vulnerability in the HTTP parser 
posted by Gabucino

Severity:
HIGH (if playing HTTP streaming content)
LOW (if playing only normal files)

Description:
A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer.  A malicious host can
craft a harmful HTTP header ("Location:"), and trick MPlayer  into executing arbitrary code upon
parsing that header.

MPlayer versions affected:
MPlayer 0.90pre series
MPlayer 0.90rc series
MPlayer 0.90
MPlayer 0.91
MPlayer 1.0pre1
MPlayer 1.0pre2
MPlayer 1.0pre3

MPlayer versions unaffected:
MPlayer releases before 0.60pre1
MPlayer 0.92.1
MPlayer 1.0pre3try2
MPlayer 0_92 CVS
MPlayer HEAD CVS
...
Patch availability:
A patch is available for all vulnerable versions  here.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/vuln02-fix.diff

[Comment 3 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-03-31 00:26:33 UTC]

Someone who was afraid to comment on this bug :-) gave the following links:
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2004/Mar/0323.html                            
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2004/Mar/0326.html

[Comment 4 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2004-03-31 00:51:56 UTC]

Patrick -- can you please re-assign this back to [e-mail] once you've got things patched?  Otherwise, we risk losing track of it.

Thanks.

[Comment 5 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2004-03-31 01:56:04 UTC]

AMD64, PPC: please test mplayer-1.0_pre3-r5 and mark stable

[Comment 6 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2004-03-31 02:33:34 UTC]

ignore my previous testing request.  I didn't properly understand how Patrick patched things.

GLSA forthcoming.

[Comment 7 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2004-03-31 04:07:43 UTC]

GLSA 200403-13

[Comment 8 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2004-03-31 04:35:46 UTC]

*** Bug 46346 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2004-04-05 08:22:38 UTC]

*** Bug 46864 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***