Oval Definition:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12883
Revision Date:2014-06-23Version:21
Title:DSA-1782-1 mplayer -- several vulnerabilities
Description:Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mplayer, a movie player for Unix-like systems. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2009-0385 It was discovered that watching a malformed 4X movie file could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2008-4866 It was discovered that multiple buffer overflows could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2008-5616 It was discovered that watching a malformed TwinVQ file could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution, these problems have been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch7. For the stable distribution, mplayer links against ffmpeg-debian. For the testing distribution and the unstable distribution, mplayer links against ffmpeg-debian. We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer packages.
Family:unixClass:patch
Status:ACCEPTEDReference(s):CVE-2008-4866
CVE-2008-5616
CVE-2009-0385
DSA-1782-1
Platform(s):Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s):mplayer
Definition Synopsis
  • Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 is installed.
  • AND Architecture section
  • Architecture independent section
  • Installed architecture is all
  • AND mplayer-doc DPKG is earlier than 1.0~rc1-12etch7
  • OR Architecture depended section
  • Supported architectures section
  • Installed architecture is s390
  • OR Installed architecture is amd64
  • OR Installed architecture is sparc
  • OR Installed architecture is arm
  • OR Installed architecture is i386
  • OR Installed architecture is mips
  • OR Installed architecture is ia64
  • OR Installed architecture is alpha
  • OR Installed architecture is powerpc
  • OR Installed architecture is hppa
  • AND mplayer DPKG is earlier than 1.0~rc1-12etch7
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