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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60799
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1552-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mplayer' package(s) announced via the DSA-1552-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mplayer' package(s) announced via the DSA-1552-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that the MPlayer movie player performs insufficient input sanitising on SDP session data, leading to potential execution of arbitrary code through a malformed multimedia stream.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~
rc1-12etch3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~
rc2-10.

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:
10.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-1558
BugTraq ID: 28851
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28851
Debian Security Information: DSA-1552 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1552
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5307
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-22.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:196
http://secunia.com/advisories/29515
http://secunia.com/advisories/29921
http://secunia.com/advisories/30412
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0997/references
XForce ISS Database: mplayer-sdpplin-overflow(41490)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41490
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG

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