The Mandriva Security Team published a new security update: MDKSA-2005:229 - Updated xmovie packages fix buffer overflow vulnerability for Mandriva Linux. Here the announcement:
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2005:229
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : xmovie
Date : December 14, 2005
Affected: 2006.0, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:
Simon Kilvington discovered a vulnerability in FFmpeg libavcodec,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial
of Service) and potentially to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the
"avcodec_default_get_buffer()" function of "utils.c" in libavcodec.
This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow when a
specially-crafted 1x1 ".png" file containing a palette is read.
Xmovie is built with a private copy of ffmpeg containing this
same code.
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this problem.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4048
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
b6b3622d949af833f6fbb5b89a32a10d 2006.0/RPMS/xmovie-1.9.13-2.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm
48f0b55b1d8547eb77d3f4cf9787544b 2006.0/SRPMS/xmovie-1.9.13-2.2.20060mdk.src.rpm
Corporate 3.0:
3fae159ac8ab7aa190d341868009e3c6 corporate/3.0/RPMS/xmovie-1.9.11-1.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
18674dd3aff5f923ac327bbf134aca8c corporate/3.0/SRPMS/xmovie-1.9.11-1.2.C30mdk.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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