Summary
The remote host is missing an update to alsaplayer announced via advisory DSA 1179-1.
Luigi Auriemma discovered several buffer overflows in alsaplayer, a PCM player designed for ALSA, that can lead to a crash of the application and maybe worse outcome.
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.76-0.3sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your alsaplayer package.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201179-1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2006-4089 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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