From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2005 - 01:52:18 CST

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TITLE:
DivX Player ".dps" Skin File Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13969

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13969/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
DivX Player 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4554/

DESCRIPTION:
Luigi Auriemma has discovered a vulnerability in DivX Player, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the
unpacking of compressed skin files. This can be exploited to
overwrite or create arbitrary files on a user's system via directory
traversal attacks by tricking a user into opening a malicious ".dps"
skin file.

The vulnerability has been confirmed on version 2.6. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not open untrusted skin files.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/divxplayer-adv.txt

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