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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-2008-2427
CVE ID : CVE-2008-5233 - CVE-2008-5236 - CVE-2008-5238 - CVE-2008-5239 - CVE-2008-5240 - CVE-2008-5241 - CVE-2008-5242 - CVE-2008-5243 - CVE-2008-5247
CWE ID : CWE-20 - CWE-119 - CWE-189
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-08-25


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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.

Integer and heap overflow errors exist in the "parse_block_group()" [demux_matroska.c], "real_parse_audio_specific_data()" [demux_real.c], and "open_ra_file()" [demux_realaudio.c] functions, which could be exploited to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code.

Various input validation errors exist within the handling of media files (e.g. real), which could be exploited to cause a denial of service.

Affected Products

xine-lib version 1.1.15 and prior

Solution

Some vulnerabilities were fixed in xine-lib version 1.1.16.2 :
http://www.xine-project.org/releases

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2427
http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-008/analysis.txt
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-008.html
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=660071

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Will Drewry, oCERT Team and Google Security Team.

ChangeLog

2008-08-25 : Initial release
2009-02-17 : Updated Solution

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