Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in MPlayer, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system.
The first issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "url_escape_string()" [stream/url.c] function when processing malformed URLs, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code [...]
References
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/0406
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2102
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2103
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Adam Bozanich (Musecurity), Damian Frizza and Alfredo Ortega (CORE Security Technologies).
ChangeLog
2008-02-05 : Initial release
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