CVE-2008-5237 Information

Description

Multiple integer overflows in xine-lib 1.1.12 and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) crafted width and height values that are not validated by the mymng_process_header function in demux_mng.c before use in an allocation calculation or (2) crafted current_atom_size and string_size values processed by the parse_reference_atom function in demux_qt.c for an RDRF_ATOM string.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31827 http://secunia.com/advisories/33544 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4648 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:020 http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-008/analysis.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495674/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30797 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44652 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00174.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00385.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00555.html