Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that mplayer, a multimedia player, is
vulnerable to several integer overflows in the Real video stream
demuxing code. These flaws could allow an attacker to cause a denial
of service (a crash) or potentially execution of arbitrary code by
supplying a maliciously crafted video file.
Read the full story: DSA-1644 mplayer - integer overflow: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1644
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Gnome PeerCast,
the Gnome interface to PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming
server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:
Read the full story: DSA-1583 gnome-peercast - buffer overflow: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1583
Nico Golde discovered that PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming
server, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the HTTP Basic
Authentication code, allowing a remote attacker to crash PeerCast or
execute arbitrary code.
Read the full story: DSA-1582 peercast - buffer overflow: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1582