Summary
The remote host is missing an update to xine-lib
announced via advisory DSA 1005-1.
Simon Kilvington discovered that specially crafted PNG images can trigger a heap overflow in libavcodec, the multimedia library of ffmpeg, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
xine-lib includes a local copy of libavcodec.
The old stable distribution (woody) isn't affected by this problem.
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1.5.
We recommend that you upgrade your xine-lib package.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201005-1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-4048 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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