USN-315-1: libmms, xine-lib vulnerabilities

13 July 2006

libmms, xine-lib vulnerabilities

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Details

Matthias Hopf discovered several buffer overflows in libmms. By
tricking a user into opening a specially crafted remote multimedia
stream with an application using libmms, a remote attacker could
exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.

The Xine library contains an embedded copy of libmms, and thus needs
the same security update.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06
  • libxine-main1 - 1.1.1+ubuntu2-7.2
Ubuntu 5.10
  • libmms0 - 0.1-0ubuntu1.2
  • libxine1c2 - 1.0.1-1ubuntu10.4
Ubuntu 5.04
  • libxine1 - 1.0-1ubuntu3.8

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

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