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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-4610: MPlayer: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-4610: MPlayer: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/20/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

MPlayer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via (1) a malformed AAC file, as demonstrated by lol-vlc.aac; or (2) a malformed Ogg Media (OGM) file, as demonstrated by lol-ffplay.ogm, different vectors than CVE-2007-6718.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-video-mplayer

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