Package: xine-lib
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for xine-lib.

CVE-2008-5237[0]:
| Multiple integer overflows in xine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and
| earlier versions, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service
| (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) crafted width and
| height values that are not validated by the mymng_process_header
| function in demux_mng.c before use in an allocation calculation or (2)
| crafted current_atom_size and string_size values processed by the
| parse_reference_atom function in demux_qt.c.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

Cheers
Steffen

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5237
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-5237



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