MPlayer Security Advisory #002 Remotely exploitable vulnerability in HTTP parser Severity: HIGH (if playing HTTP streaming content) LOW (if playing only normal files) Description: A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer. A malicious host can craft a harmful HTTP header ("Location:"), and trick MPlayer into executing arbitrary code upon parsing that header. MPlayer versions affected: MPlayer 0.90pre series MPlayer 0.90rc series MPlayer 0.90 MPlayer 0.91 MPlayer 1.0pre1 MPlayer 1.0pre2 MPlayer 1.0pre3 MPlayer versions unaffected: MPlayer releases before 0.60pre1 MPlayer 0.92.1 MPlayer 1.0pre3try2 MPlayer 0_92 CVS MPlayer HEAD CVS Notification status: Developers were notified on 2004.03.29 (by "blexim") Fix was commited into HEAD CVS at 2004.03.30 12:58:43 CEST MPlayer 0.92.1 (vuln-fix-only release) was released on 2003.03.30 16:45:00 CEST MPlayer 1.0pre3try2 (vuln-fix-only release) was released on 2003.03.30 16:51:00 CEST Patch availability: A patch is available for all vulnerable versions. Suggested upgrading methods: MPlayer 1.0pre3 users should upgrade to latest CVS MPlayer 0.92 (and below) users should upgrade to 0.92.1 OR latest CVS MPlayer 0.92.1 (PGP signature) (MD5 checksum) is available for download. MPlayer 1.0pre3try2 (PGP signature) (MD5 checksum) is available for download. -- Gabucino MPlayer Core Team