Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in xine-lib, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. These issues are caused by integer overflow errors in various functions within the "src/demuxers/demux_flv.c", "src/demuxers/demux_qt.c", "src/demuxers/demux_real.c", "src/demuxers/demux_wc3movie.c", "src/demuxers/ebml.c", and "src/demuxers/demux_film.c" files when processing malformed data, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user intop opening a specially crafted file.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Luigi Auriemma.
ChangeLog
2008-03-25 : Initial release
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