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mplayer: remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability

Package(s):mplayer CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0835
Created:September 29, 2003 Updated:April 6, 2004
Description: A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer. A malicious host can craft a harmful ASX header, and trick MPlayer into executing arbitrary code upon parsing that header. Read the full advisory for details.
Alerts:
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:026 2004-04-05
Gentoo 200403-13 2004-03-31
Conectiva CLA-2003:760 2003-10-06
Mandrake MDKSA-2003:097 2003-09-30
Gentoo 200309-15 2003-09-27
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