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MPlayer: heap overflows

Package(s):mplayer CVE #(s):
Created:April 20, 2005 Updated:July 12, 2005
Description: Heap overflows have been found in the code handling RealMedia RTSP and Microsoft Media Services streams over TCP (MMST). By setting up a malicious server and enticing a user to use its streaming data, a remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code on the client computer with the permissions of the user running MPlayer.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:115 2005-07-11
Gentoo 200504-19 2005-04-20
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