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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58361
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1313-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mplayer' package(s) announced via the DSA-1313-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mplayer' package(s) announced via the DSA-1313-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Stefan Cornelius and Reimar Doeffinger discovered that the MPlayer movie player performs insufficient boundary checks when accessing CDDB data, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include MPlayer packages.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~
rc1-12etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~
rc1-14.

We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer package.

Affected Software/OS:
'mplayer' package(s) on Debian 4.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
9.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-2948
BugTraq ID: 24339
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24339
Debian Security Information: DSA-1313 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1313
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-07.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:143
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-55/
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-announce/2007-June/000066.html
http://osvdb.org/36991
http://secunia.com/advisories/24302
http://secunia.com/advisories/25713
http://secunia.com/advisories/25940
http://secunia.com/advisories/26083
http://secunia.com/advisories/26207
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:014 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2080
XForce ISS Database: mplayer-cddb-bo(34749)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34749
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