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>> xine-lib Multiple Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Title : xine-lib Multiple Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2382
CVE ID : CVE-2008-5234 - CVE-2008-5235 - CVE-2008-5236 - CVE-2008-5244 - CVE-2008-5245 - CVE-2008-5246 - CVE-2008-5248
CWE ID : CWE-119
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-08-15


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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.

The first issue is caused by errors in the "demux_ogg_send_chunk()" and "send_header()" [src/demuxers/demux_ogg.c] functions when processing malformed Ogg files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application.

The second vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "open_video_capture_device()" [src/input/input_v4l.c] function when processing a malformed V4L video, which could be exploited to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

The third vulnerability is caused by heap overflow errors in the "id3v22_interp_frame()", "id3v23_interp_frame()" and "id3v24_interp_frame()" [src/demuxers/id3.c] functions when processing ID3 data, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.

The fourth issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "demux_real_send_chunk()" [src/demuxers/demux_real.c] function when processing a malformed Real file, which could be exploited to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Affected Products

xine-lib versions prior to 1.1.15

Solution

Upgrade to xine-lib version 1.1.15 :
http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2382
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=619869&group_id=9655
http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib?cmd=changeset;node=967a8e515380c0c9b9858125a054082145002d00;style=gitweb
http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib?cmd=changeset;node=d48b28d89d229458b2068e047f00cc56de4f4c2f;style=gitweb
http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib?cmd=changeset;node=268c1c1639d766d92b7e7bb11de7b38482ebe8e9;style=gitweb
http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib?cmd=changeset;node=1f961a5d8a7f3cc985109b1cb5faba59bd4d22cc;style=gitweb

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by the vendor.

ChangeLog

2008-08-15 : Initial release

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