Package : xine-lib Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-4048 Debian Bug : 342208
Simon Kilvington discovered that specially crafted PNG images can trigger a heap overflow in libavcodec, the multimedia library of ffmpeg, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. xine-lib includes a local copy of libavcodec.
The old stable distribution (woody) isn't affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1.5.
We recommend that you upgrade your xine-lib package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------