Secunia Security Advisory - Federico L. Bossi Bonin has reported a vulnerability in xine-lib, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
xine-lib MPEG Stream Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19853
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19853/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
xine-lib 1.x
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DESCRIPTION:
Federico L. Bossi Bonin has reported a vulnerability in xine-lib,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise
a user's system.
The vulnerability is cause due to a boundary error within the
handling of MPEG streams. This can be exploited to cause a buffer
overflow and may allow arbitrary code execution via a
specially-crafted MPEG file.
The vulnerability has been reported in libxine 1.14 that is
distributed in xine-lib 1.1.1. Other versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Do not play MPEG files from untrusted sources.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Federico L. Bossi Bonin
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/1641
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