USN-315-1: libmms, xine-lib vulnerabilities

Publication date

13 July 2006

Overview

libmms, xine-lib vulnerabilities


Details

Matthias Hopf discovered several buffer overflows in libmms. By
tricking a user into opening a specially crafted remote multimedia
stream with an application using libmms, a remote attacker could
exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.

The Xine library contains an embedded copy of libmms, and thus needs
the same security update.

Matthias Hopf discovered several buffer overflows in libmms. By
tricking a user into opening a specially crafted remote multimedia
stream with an application using libmms, a remote attacker could
exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.

The Xine library contains an embedded copy of libmms, and thus needs
the same security update.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
6.06 dapper libxine-main1 –  1.1.1+ubuntu2-7.2
5.10 breezy libmms0 –  0.1-0ubuntu1.2
libxine1c2 –  1.0.1-1ubuntu10.4
5.04 hoary libxine1 –  1.0-1ubuntu3.8

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