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Package name mplayer
Date March 13th, 2007
Advisory ID MDKSA-2007:061
Affected versions CS3.0, 2007.0
Synopsis Updated mplayer packages to address buffer overflow vulnerability

Problem Description

The DS_VideoDecoder_Open function in loader/dshow/DS_VideoDecoder.c
in MPlayer 1.0rc1 and earlier does not set the biSize before use in a
memcpy, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a buffer
overflow and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Updated packages have been patched to address this issue.

Updated Packages

Corporate Server 3.0

 c64f6dabd707e3b4fae443988519efe1  corporate/3.0/i586/libdha0.1-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 6e2635ae4124bd58e4ffb57e396279e6  corporate/3.0/i586/libpostproc0-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 a7f889df880e566a2be1c2e6ce942e26  corporate/3.0/i586/libpostproc0-devel-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 cb0317956436d4ddda909b1c9219f3b6  corporate/3.0/i586/mencoder-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 cd3f0e96ef3a61a538a68798a2a0d858  corporate/3.0/i586/mplayer-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 2afd7f84626ee444bb129da6b8b09ef5  corporate/3.0/i586/mplayer-gui-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm 
 256831a2cc6035d8a5d814a11e9dcbab  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/mplayer-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 3.0/X86_64

 c9a51959e40d253f419a9b20950ca731  corporate/3.0/x86_64/lib64postproc0-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 0dd1c4e48016482ad71bbe88d03df065  corporate/3.0/x86_64/lib64postproc0-devel-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 67870e99b1c13572154edf3528619cea  corporate/3.0/x86_64/mencoder-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 d560fbabaeb8cd4a22dea60056d74a39  corporate/3.0/x86_64/mplayer-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 cdbe12ddb58baad01273e3ed05cc5c67  corporate/3.0/x86_64/mplayer-gui-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm 
 256831a2cc6035d8a5d814a11e9dcbab  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/mplayer-1.0-0.pre3.14.10.C30mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007

 b8e05059e9bc3d18a2456a37a1839d9f  2007.0/i586/libdha1.0-1.0-1.pre8.13.2mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 896ba77ebf917368fcf212992893a0f3  2007.0/i586/mencoder-1.0-1.pre8.13.2mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 c5d5456ba9b4d1e74719015b7620a663  2007.0/i586/mplayer-1.0-1.pre8.13.2mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 fca7d426831728ad4499345bebfd0bcf  2007.0/i586/mplayer-gui-1.0-1.pre8.13.2mdv2007.0.i586.rpm 
 bc24bf10f0a8317a1e3675deb48c5e99  2007.0/SRPMS/mplayer-1.0-1.pre8.13.2mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64

 647b80ea509053b8d7a34caaac366c88  2007.0/x86_64/mencoder-1.0-1.pre8.13.2mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 9283e762810fd0ce7306e2fe35d0ad1c  2007.0/x86_64/mplayer-1.0-1.pre8.13.2mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 3034c692dadbe5276dcf85cbde03a20d  2007.0/x86_64/mplayer-gui-1.0-1.pre8.13.2mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm 
 bc24bf10f0a8317a1e3675deb48c5e99  2007.0/SRPMS/mplayer-1.0-1.pre8.13.2mdv2007.0.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1387

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