gxine: Format string vulnerability — GLSA 200505-19

A format string vulnerability in gxine could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Package	media-video/gxine on all architectures
Affected versions	< 0.4.4
Unaffected versions	revision >= 0.3.3-r2 revision >= 0.4.1-r1 >= 0.4.4

gxine is a GTK+ and xine-lib based media player.

Exworm discovered that gxine insecurely implements formatted printing in the hostname decoding function.

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a carefully crafted file with gxine, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All gxine users should upgrade to the latest available version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose media-video/gxine

Release date
May 26, 2005

Latest revision
May 26, 2005: 01

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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