Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in xine-lib, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. These issues are caused by integer overflow errors in various functions within the "src/demuxers/demux_flv.c", "src/demuxers/demux_qt.c", "src/demuxers/demux_real.c", "src/demuxers/demux_wc3movie.c", "src/demuxers/ebml.c", and "src/demuxers/demux_film.c" files when processing malformed data, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user intop opening a specially crafted file.

Affected Products

xine-lib version 1.1.11 and prior

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0981
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/xinehof-adv.txt

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Luigi Auriemma.

ChangeLog

2008-03-25 : Initial release

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