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mplayer: buffer overflow

Package(s):mplayer CVE #(s):CVE-2007-1246
Created:March 8, 2007 Updated:April 1, 2008
Description: MPlayer versions up to 1.0rc1 have a buffer overflow in the loader/dmo/DMO_VideoDecoder.c DMO_VideoDecoder_Open function. user-assisted remote attackers can use this to create a buffer overflow and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1536-1 2008-03-31
Gentoo 200705-21 2007-05-30
Foresight FLEA-2007-0013-1 2007-04-23
Slackware SSA:2007-109-02 2007-04-20
Gentoo 200704-09 2007-04-14
Ubuntu USN-433-1 2007-03-09
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:057 2007-03-08
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:055 2007-03-08
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