Debian DSA-1782-1 : mplayer - several vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 38641

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mplayer, a movie player for Unix-like systems. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2009-0385 It was discovered that watching a malformed 4X movie file could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2008-4866 It was discovered that multiple buffer overflows could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2008-5616 It was discovered that watching a malformed TwinVQ file could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the mplayer packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch7.

For the stable distribution (lenny), mplayer links against ffmpeg-debian.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 38641

File Name: debian_DSA-1782.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/30/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mplayer, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4866, CVE-2008-5616, CVE-2009-0385

BID: 33502

CWE: 119, 189

DSA: 1782

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