Summary
The remote host is missing an update to mplayer
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:013.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:013
Insight
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mplayer, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed TwinVQ file (CVE-2008-5616), and in ffmpeg, as used by mplayer, related to the execution of DTS generation code (CVE-2008-4866) and incorrect handling of DCA_MAX_FRAME_SIZE value (CVE-2008-4867).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-4866, CVE-2008-4867, CVE-2008-5616 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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