Source: mplayer
Severity: grave
Tags: security

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

CVE-2008-0630[0]:
| Buffer overflow in url.c in MPlayer 1.0rc2 and SVN before r25823
| allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URL
| that prevents the IPv6 parsing code from setting a pointer to NULL,
| which causes the buffer to be reused by the unescape code.

You can find a patch for this on:
http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/stream/stream_cddb.c?r1=25820&r2=25824

If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.

For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0630

Kind regards
Nico

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