FreeBSD : mplayer -- multiple vulnerabilities (85d76f02-5380-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 19013

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

iDEFENSE and the MPlayer Team have found multiple vulnerabilities in MPlayer :

- Potential heap overflow in Real RTSP streaming code

- Potential stack overflow in MMST streaming code

- Multiple buffer overflows in BMP demuxer

- Potential heap overflow in pnm streaming code

- Potential buffer overflow in mp3lib

These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the user running MPlayer. The problem in the pnm streaming code also affects xine.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f0dfa981

https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110322526210300

http://www.nessus.org/u?4c7dac8f

https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110322829807443

http://www.nessus.org/u?12ef3169

https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110323022605345

http://www.nessus.org/u?cdbcba84

http://www.nessus.org/u?93d1630b

http://www.nessus.org/u?6e76705f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 19013

File Name: freebsd_pkg_85d76f02538011d9a9e70001020eed82.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:libxine, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mplayer, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mplayer-esound, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mplayer-gtk, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mplayer-gtk-esound, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mplayer-gtk2, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mplayer-gtk2-esound, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1187, CVE-2004-1188