Summary
The remote host is missing an update to xine-lib
announced via advisory DSA 863-1.
Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a format string vulnerability in the CDDB processing component of xine-lib, the xine video/media player library, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code caused by a malicious CDDB entry.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.8-2woody4.
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your libxine0 and libxine1 packages.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20863-1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-2967 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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