Technical Description

Gentoo has released updated packages to address multiple vulnerabilities identified in MPlayer. These flaws could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0457 and VUPEN/ADV-2005-2770

Affected Products

media-video/mplayer versions prior to 1.0.20060217

Solution

Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=media-video/mplayer-1.0.20060217"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0831
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/6892

ChangeLog

2006-03-05 : Initial release

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