Package : xine-lib Vulnerability : format string vulnerability Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2967 Debian Bug : 332919
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.
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.
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 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------