CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
93.5%
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.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1644. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(34340);
script_version("1.14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-3827");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1644");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1644-1 : mplayer - integer overflow");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"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."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500683"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1644"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the mplayer packages.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0~rc1-12etch5."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_cwe_id(189);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mplayer");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/10/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/10/06");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"mplayer", reference:"1.0~rc1-12etch5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"mplayer-doc", reference:"1.0~rc1-12etch5")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | mplayer | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mplayer |
debian | debian_linux | 4.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0 |