Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Slackware, which could be exploited by attackers execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in xine-lib. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0794

Affected Products

Slackware 10.0
Slackware 10.1
Slackware 10.2
Slackware 11.0

Solution

Updated package for Slackware 10.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/xine-lib-1.1.6-i686-1_slack10.0.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 10.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.1/patches/packages/xine-lib-1.1.6-i686-1_slack10.1.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 10.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/packages/xine-lib-1.1.6-i686-1_slack10.2.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/xine-lib-1.1.6-i686-1_slack11.0.tgz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/xine-lib-1.1.6-i686-2.tgz

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1474
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.449141

ChangeLog

2007-04-20 : Initial release

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