Bug 93532 – media-video/gxine: Remote Hostname Format String Vulnerability (CAN-2005-1692)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Adir Abraham 2005-05-22 03:29:11 UTC]

From SecurityFocus.com:
Gxine is susceptible to a remote format string vulnerability. This issue is due
to a failure of the application to securely implement a formatted printing function.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute
arbitrary machine code in the context of the affected application.

Vulnerable versions:
xine gxine 0.4.0
xine gxine 0.4.1
xine gxine 0.4.2
xine gxine 0.4.3
xine gxine 0.4.4

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Matthias Geerdsen (RETIRED) 2005-05-22 07:17:19 UTC]

media-video, pls verify/advise

[Comment 2 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-05-24 06:01:30 UTC]

Upstream is aware of it :
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7337157&forum_id=7131

[Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-05-24 07:01:11 UTC]

Also 0.3.3 is vulnerable. 
 
I've added new versions (0.3.3-r2, 0.4.1-r1 and 0.4.4) with a patch which 
should fix the problem. 
 
I also sent the patch to upstream author. 
 

[Comment 4 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-05-24 12:22:47 UTC]

sparc, x86, take your preferred fix version and stabilize it.

[Comment 5 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-05-24 13:34:47 UTC]

CAN number asked to MITRE

[Comment 6 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2005-05-24 14:09:30 UTC]

CVE id assigned. 

[Comment 7 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-05-25 07:35:40 UTC]

*** Bug 93939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2005-05-25 20:47:29 UTC]

0.4.1-r1 stable on SPARC

[Comment 9 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-05-26 03:04:52 UTC]

GLSA is ready,
x86 testers / Diego: please test and mark stable on x86 (if stable)

[Comment 10 Jan Brinkmann (RETIRED) 2005-05-26 03:26:41 UTC]

0.4.1-r1 stable on x86

[Comment 11 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-05-26 04:30:04 UTC]

GLSA 200505-19