A vulnerability has been identified in xine-lib, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "demux_nsf_send_chunk()" [demux_nsf.c] function when processing overly long Title, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted media file.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Guido Landi.
ChangeLog
2008-04-17 : Initial release
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