[Please upgrade if you use MPlayer for playing HTTP streaming content -- Raju]
This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/04w6evG8XlLl3ft" Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Gabucino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MPlayer Security Advisory #002 - HTTP parsing vulnerability Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:54:12 +0200 --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MPlayer Security Advisory #002 Remotely exploitable vulnerability in HTTP parser 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 Notification status: Developers were notified on 2004.03.29 (by "blexim") Fix was commited into HEAD CVS at 2004.03.30 12:58:43 CEST MPlayer 0.92.1 (vuln-fix-only release) was released on 2003.03.30 16:45:00 = CEST MPlayer 1.0pre3try2 (vuln-fix-only release) was released on 2003.03.30 16:5= 1:00 CEST Patch availability: A patch is available for all vulnerable versions. Suggested upgrading methods: MPlayer 1.0pre3 users should upgrade to latest CVS MPlayer 0.92 (and below) users should upgrade to 0.92.1 OR latest CVS MPlayer 0.92.1 (PGP signature) (MD5 checksum) is available for download. MPlayer 1.0pre3try2 (PGP signature) (MD5 checksum) is available for downloa= d. --=20 Gabucino MPlayer Core Team --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFAaZgkAq6GhkS0XDcRAuVLAJ9+agr8MiFvGnPnov4GbHmhTgSabQCeIkLT l5Et5VYdxlnIy9BzAW+1kK0= =fWg1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft-- ------------------------------ End of this Digest ****************** -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/