Two vulnerabilities have been identified in MPlayer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. These issues are due to buffer overflow errors within the "DMO_VideoDecoder()" [loader/dmo/DMO_VideoDecoder.c] and "DS_VideoDecoder_Open()" [loader/dshow/DS_VideoDecoder.c] functions that does not validate certain values before being copied into an insufficiently sized buffer via a "memcpy()" call, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or compromise a vulnerable system by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted video file.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Moritz Jodeit
ChangeLog
2007-03-01 : Initial release
2007-03-11 : Updated Advisory
2007-04-09 : Updated Solution
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