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Debian DSA-1552-1 : mplayer - missing input sanitising

critical Nessus Plugin ID 32007

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that the MPlayer movie player performs insufficient input sanitising on SDP session data, leading to potential execution of arbitrary code through a malformed multimedia stream.

Solution

Upgrade the mplayer package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch3.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1552

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 32007

File Name: debian_DSA-1552.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/22/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/19/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1558

BID: 25696, 28715, 28749

CWE: 189

DSA: 1552