Package name mplayer
Date January 15th, 2009
Advisory ID MDVSA-2009:013
Affected versions 2008.1, 2009.0

Problem Description

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)
and incorrect handling of DCA_MAX_FRAME_SIZE value (CVE-2008-4867).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.

Updated Packages

Mandriva Linux 2008.1

 615c485d4e49252790f6903475cf5012  2008.1/i586/mencoder-1.0-1.rc2.10.5mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 174ff57498f0aed4e27215243ffc1e7a  2008.1/i586/mplayer-1.0-1.rc2.10.5mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 bf525ed83d1d2cda81fec2ad3d54a4e5  2008.1/i586/mplayer-doc-1.0-1.rc2.10.5mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 f3c2e5cc7dfd7d73acf7139c56d72f2b  2008.1/i586/mplayer-gui-1.0-1.rc2.10.5mdv2008.1.i586.rpm 
 20236bfcda9e9cf72768f22276535a2d  2008.1/SRPMS/mplayer-1.0-1.rc2.10.5mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64

 bef89850f6b0ea9a943ac357b60b0a43  2008.1/x86_64/mencoder-1.0-1.rc2.10.5mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 cee0def5985100dfbb73d7f7947af336  2008.1/x86_64/mplayer-1.0-1.rc2.10.5mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 f54ac4346398f00042844e62c211ea2a  2008.1/x86_64/mplayer-doc-1.0-1.rc2.10.5mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 1745576512f4c556f8c412d0be97ab39  2008.1/x86_64/mplayer-gui-1.0-1.rc2.10.5mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm 
 20236bfcda9e9cf72768f22276535a2d  2008.1/SRPMS/mplayer-1.0-1.rc2.10.5mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2009.0

 091da5e331e75a0a4eff3d18555a3f44  2009.0/i586/mencoder-1.0-1.rc2.18.2mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
 cf045eb24ce6160925b1494c436145b7  2009.0/i586/mplayer-1.0-1.rc2.18.2mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
 25169ddef93d8357c52decc681eb5a45  2009.0/i586/mplayer-doc-1.0-1.rc2.18.2mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
 047f63983541bf68da05c0172466962a  2009.0/i586/mplayer-gui-1.0-1.rc2.18.2mdv2009.0.i586.rpm 
 b56e1c35a47104953c42ea0a5fbe826c  2009.0/SRPMS/mplayer-1.0-1.rc2.18.2mdv2009.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2009.0/X86_64

 4d468adcbb6713f7995e5d60f070e6ad  2009.0/x86_64/mencoder-1.0-1.rc2.18.2mdv2009.0.x86_64.rpm
 305e6ba8973e27c21dec655b61c36134  2009.0/x86_64/mplayer-1.0-1.rc2.18.2mdv2009.0.x86_64.rpm
 3daf3c6b26a84320424a9719ba23a0b9  2009.0/x86_64/mplayer-doc-1.0-1.rc2.18.2mdv2009.0.x86_64.rpm
 fe27d24ba0192af6c874a156a0e66365  2009.0/x86_64/mplayer-gui-1.0-1.rc2.18.2mdv2009.0.x86_64.rpm 
 b56e1c35a47104953c42ea0a5fbe826c  2009.0/SRPMS/mplayer-1.0-1.rc2.18.2mdv2009.0.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5616
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4867
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4866

Upgrade

To upgrade automatically, use MandrivaUpdate.


Verification

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :

		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.

If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.