CVE-2004-1188 Information

Description

The pnm_get_chunk function in xine 0.99.2 and earlier and other packages such as MPlayer that use the same code does not properly verify that the chunk size is less than the PREAMBLE_SIZE which causes a read operation with a negative length that leads to a buffer overflow via (1) RMF_TAG (2) DATA_TAG (3) PROP_TAG (4) MDPR_TAG and (5) CONT_TAG values a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-1187.

Reference

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xine/xine-lib/src/input/pnm.c?r1=1.20&r2=1.21 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=177&type=vulnerabilities http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:011 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/pnm_fix_20041215.diff https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18638