Bug 720498 - xine-lib: memory corruption vulnerability fixed in 1.1.19
Summary: xine-lib: memory corruption vulnerability fixed in 1.1.19
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords: Security
Depends On: 720499 720500
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-11 20:17 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2019-06-08 18:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-06-10 22:33:20 UTC

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Description Vincent Danen 2011-07-11 20:17:49 UTC 
A fairly vague report [1] indicates that xine-lib < 1.1.19 suffers from a memory corruption flaw because it would free a variable without first initializing it, leading to possible arbitrary code execution.

I have been unable to find any further information beyond a Gentoo bug report [2]; no CVE name or patch.

[1] http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/advisories/mwri_xine_free_uninit/
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346897

Fedora currently provides xine-lib 1.1.19, but EPEL5 and EPEL6 both provide older versions.
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-07-11 20:20:04 UTC 
Created xine-lib tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: epel-5 [bug 720499]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 720500]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2014-09-18 23:50:20 UTC 
xine-lib-1.1.21-10.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-09-18 23:50:29 UTC 
xine-lib-1.1.21-10.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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