USN-392-1: xine-lib vulnerability
4 December 2006
xine-lib vulnerability
Releases
Details
A buffer overflow was discovered in the Real Media input plugin in
xine-lib. If a user were tricked into loading a specially crafted
stream from a malicious server, the attacker could execute arbitrary
code with the user's privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 6.10
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libxine1
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1.1.2+repacked1-0ubuntu3.2
Ubuntu 6.06
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libxine-main1
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1.1.1+ubuntu2-7.5
Ubuntu 5.10
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libxine1c2
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1.0.1-1ubuntu10.7
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.