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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63200
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:014 (mplayer)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to mplayer;announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:014.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to mplayer
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:014.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mplayer, which could
allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed
TwinVQ file (CVE-2008-5616), and in ffmpeg, as used by mplayer,
related to the execution of DTS generation code (CVE-2008-4866).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.

Affected: 2008.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

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-2008-5616
BugTraq ID: 32822
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32822
Bugtraq: 20081214 [TKADV2008-014] MPlayer TwinVQ Processing Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499214/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1782 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1782
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:013
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:014
http://trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-014.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/33136
http://secunia.com/advisories/34845
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4866
BugTraq ID: 33308
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33308
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-09/0103.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-33.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:015
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-August/016011.html
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-August/016012.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/6
http://secunia.com/advisories/34296
http://secunia.com/advisories/34385
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-734-1
XForce ISS Database: ffmpeg-utils-multiple-bo(46322)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46322
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4867
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-August/016352.html
XForce ISS Database: ffmpeg-dca-bo(46324)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46324
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