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xine-lib: buffer overflow

Package(s):xine-lib CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6172
Created:December 5, 2006 Updated:June 5, 2007
Description: 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.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:112 2007-06-04
Gentoo 200702-11 2007-02-27
Debian DSA-1244-1 2006-12-28
Gentoo 200612-02 2006-12-09
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:028 2006-12-08
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:224 2006-12-05
Ubuntu USN-392-1 2006-12-04
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