National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-1187
Original release date:01/10/2005
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Heap-based buffer overflow in the pnm_get_chunk function for xine 0.99.2, and other packages such as MPlayer that use the same code, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long PNA_TAG values, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-1188.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: IDEFENSE
Name: 20041221 Multiple Vendor Xine version 0.99.2 PNM Handler PNA_TAG Heap Overflow Vulnerability
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: xine-pnatag-bo(18640)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/pnm_fix_20041215.diff
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2005:011
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xine/xine-lib/src/input/pnm.c?r1=1.20&r2=1.21
