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>> xine-lib NSF Demuxer Title Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : xine-lib NSF Demuxer Title Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1247
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1878
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-17
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A vulnerability has been identified in xine-lib, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "demux_nsf_send_chunk()" [demux_nsf.c] function when processing overly long Title, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted media file.
Affected Products
xine-lib version 1.1.12 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1247
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Guido Landi.
ChangeLog
2008-04-17 : Initial release
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