Summary
The remote host is missing an update to mplayer
announced via advisory DSA 1552-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201552-1
Insight
It was discovered that the MPlayer movie player performs insufficient input sanitising on SDP session data, leading to potential execution of arbitrary code through a malformed multimedia stream.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~rc1-12etch3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0~rc2-10.
We recommend that you upgrade your mplayer package.
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2008-1558 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Related Vulnerabilities