Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200509-01.
Solution
All MPlayer users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1'
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200509-01 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103555
http://www.sven-tantau.de/public_files/mplayer/mplayer_20050824.txt
Insight
A heap overflow in MPlayer might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-2718 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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