From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jun 29 2004 - 06:29:51 CDT

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TITLE:
MPlayer GUI Filename Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11945

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11945/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
MPlayer 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/2129/
MPlayer 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/2255/

DESCRIPTION:
c0ntex has reported a vulnerability in MPlayer, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
"TranslateFilename()" function. This can be exploited to cause a
buffer overflow via e.g. a specially crafted m3u file.

Successful exploitation requires that MPlayer has been compiled with
GUI support and a user can be tricked into connecting to a malicious
service.

The vulnerability reportedly affects version 1.0pre4 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Compile MPlayer without GUI support.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
c0ntex

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.open-security.org/advisories/5

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