Package: xine-lib Severity: normal Tags: security Hi, the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was published for xine-lib.
CVE-2008-5247[0]: | The real_parse_audio_specific_data function in demux_real.c in | xine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions, uses an | untrusted height (aka codec_data_length) value as a divisor, which | allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero | error and crash) via a zero value. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE id in your changelog entry. This is part 1C of http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-008/analysis.txt which covers a more severe issue with the same code but this got an own CVE id so this bug is just normal and pretty straight forward to fix. For further information see: [0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5247 http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-5247 -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - [email protected] - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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