Debian DSA-1313-1 : mplayer - buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 25557

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Stefan Cornelius and Reimar Doeffinger discovered that the MPlayer movie player performs insufficient boundary checks when accessing CDDB data, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include MPlayer packages.

Solution

Upgrade the mplayer package.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1313

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25557

File Name: debian_DSA-1313.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/21/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mplayer, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2948

DSA: 1313