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  • [SECURITY] [DSA-1644-1] New mplayer packages fix integer overflows

    From Devin Carraway@1:229/2 to All on Sun Oct 5 23:00:26 2008
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1644-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Devin Carraway October 05, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : mplayer
    Vulnerability : integer overflow
    Problem type : local (remote)
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-3827
    Debian Bug : 500683

    Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that mplayer, a multimedia player, is vulnerable to several integer overflows in the Real video stream
    demuxing code. These flaws could allow an attacker to cause a denial
    of service (a crash) or potentially the execution of arbitrary code by supplying a maliciously crafted video file.

    For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
    version 1.0~rc1-12etch5. For he unstable distribution (sid), these
    problems have been fixed in version 1.0~rc2-18.

    We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer packages.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Debian (stable)
    - ---------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 86658 cd099ed406a7c844930c9887d8982a52
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 10286260 815482129b79cb9390904b145c5def6c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1265 b270973c3ce8e7fbfca6f9cd3eb66425

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer-doc_1.0~rc1-12etch5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2047298 17e990bdca10c40756b82a9dc5a2e265

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4707948 f431548b126d4341bb696db81246bdd4

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4370114 98533d1a687b80c2e0986150f8ce8236

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4325478 00ad261cf9de27068b7cb734726547b4

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4384816 343f46588519430c765ea7a715418737

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4421394 88000ce453707cd19da6cc8c197a5333

    ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5842440 95e5f58d87ebe234dd448389ce87f009

    mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4274920 7a4d77fad46563b8ae3714a4a560e9dd

    mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4279550 57fe11ca3fc351267fa209cf6e90a6ff

    powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4342366 043f7ab2732751f06da1eb06220fc613

    s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4162914 fbbc3861141a158ff4e73f7367ab2b1c

    sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc1-12etch5_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4038434 a397ab5d30990322dcb76ab23d681f77


    These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
    its next update.

    - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
    For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
    Mailing list: [email protected]
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