Hi,

Am 31.07.2012 13:43, schrieb IOhannes m zmoelnig:
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> hi all,
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> while fixing gmerlin-avdec support for Gem on OSX i noticed, that
> gmerlin-avdecoder freezes the system when opening certain files.

Can reproduce this with bgavdump -s on Linux.

> in other words: i discovered a vulnerability of gmerlin-avdec, that
> allows a remote attacker to freeze a host computer via a carefully
> crafted media-file.

Only for OSes where frozen program == frozen computer :)

But anyway this needs to be fixed of course. I'll look into this.

Burkhard

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