Debian: New helix-player packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 826-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Stone September 29th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : helix-player Vulnerability : multiple Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CAN-2005-1766 CAN-2005-2710 Debian Bug : 316276 330364 Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in the helix-player media player that could allow an attacker to execute code on the victim's machine via specially crafted network resources. CAN-2005-1766 Buffer overflow in the RealText parser could allow remote code execution via a specially crafted RealMedia file with a long RealText string. CAN-2005-2710 Format string vulnerability in Real HelixPlayer and RealPlayer 10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the image handle attribute in a RealPix (.rp) or RealText (.rt) file. For the stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-1sarge1 For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.6-1 We recommend that you upgrade your helix-player package. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------helix-player was distributed only on the i386 and powerpc architecures Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 908 6ff062a280bab4db79c04e08278e28d6 Size/MD5 checksum: 7788 1e3280253e2d60701b28b153863b2fd0 Size/MD5 checksum: 18044552 a277710be35426b317869503a4ad36d7 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 4289094 b3d2934818a2139f309f77e4acd50e3d PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 4415404 f771482fd671da4848d6a496df128f69 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org