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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200510-08">
  <title>xine-lib: Format string vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    xine-lib contains a format string error in CDDB response handling that may
    be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">xine-lib</product>
  <announced>October 08, 2005</announced>
  <revised>October 08, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>107854</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-libs/xine-lib" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.0-r5</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">1.0.1-r4</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">1_rc8-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.0-r5</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create
    multimedia frontends. It includes functions to retrieve information
    about audio CD contents from public CDDB servers.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Ulf Harnhammar discovered a format string bug in the routines
    handling CDDB server response contents.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could submit malicious information about an audio CD
    to a public CDDB server (or impersonate a public CDDB server). When the
    victim plays this CD on a multimedia frontend relying on xine-lib, it
    could end up executing arbitrary code.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All xine-lib users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose media-libs/xine-lib</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2967">CAN-2005-2967</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:30:51 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:01:28 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>