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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2082280431==" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Thierry Carrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Full-disclosure] [ GLSA 200505-19 ] gxine: Format string vulnerability Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:17:43 +0200 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --===============2082280431== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7D92B872CF21DF6E8560A8E1" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7D92B872CF21DF6E8560A8E1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200505-19 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: Normal Title: gxine: Format string vulnerability Date: May 26, 2005 Bugs: #93532 ID: 200505-19 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======== A format string vulnerability in gxine could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Background ========== gxine is a GTK+ and xine-lib based media player. Affected packages ================= ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/gxine < 0.4.4 *>= 0.3.3-r2 *>= 0.4.1-r1 >= 0.4.4 Description =========== Exworm discovered that gxine insecurely implements formatted printing in the hostname decoding function. Impact ====== A remote attacker could entice a user to open a carefully crafted file with gxine, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code. Workaround ========== There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution ========== All gxine users should upgrade to the latest available version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose media-video/gxine References ========== [ 1 ] CAN-2005-1692 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1692 [ 2 ] Bugtraq ID 13707 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13707 [ 3 ] Original Advisory http://www.0xbadexworm.org/adv/gxinefmt.txt Availability ============ This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200505-19.xml Concerns? ========= Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org. License ======= Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 --------------enig7D92B872CF21DF6E8560A8E1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFClbBdvcL1obalX08RAv39AJ47+i28o43tpkV5yrGH/X4x2U2zGgCfSnb1 //B4uKTjwUt0Lm1dfDqEJGE= =VaO1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7D92B872CF21DF6E8560A8E1-- --===============2082280431== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ --===============2082280431==-- ------------------------------ End of this Digest ****************** -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
