CVE-2006-6172 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in the asmrp_eval function in the RealMedia RTSP stream handler (asmrp.c) for Real Media input plugin as used in (1) xine/xine-lib (2) MPlayer 1.0rc1 and earlier and possibly others allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a rulebook with a large number of rulematches.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/23218 http://secunia.com/advisories/23242 http://secunia.com/advisories/23249 http://secunia.com/advisories/23301 http://secunia.com/advisories/23335 http://secunia.com/advisories/23512 http://secunia.com/advisories/23567 http://secunia.com/advisories/24336 http://secunia.com/advisories/24339 http://secunia.com/advisories/25555 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-02.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-11.xml http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.433842 http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=468432 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1244 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:224 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:112 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.htmlvuln14 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/asmrules_fix_20061231.diff http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21435 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-392-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4824 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1603458&group_id=9655&atid=109655