Kaffeine, gxine: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow

Kaffeine, gxine: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow Kaffeine and gxine both contain a buffer overflow that can be exploited when accessing content from a malicious HTTP server with specially crafted headers. kaffeine gxine 2004-11-07 2006-05-22 69663 70055 remote 0.5_rc1-r1 0.4.3b-r1 0.5_rc1-r1 0.3.3-r1 0.3.3-r1

Kaffeine and gxine are graphical front-ends for xine-lib multimedia library.

KF of Secure Network Operations has discovered an overflow that occurs during the Content-Type header processing of Kaffeine. The vulnerable code in Kaffeine is reused from gxine, making gxine vulnerable as well.

An attacker could create a specially-crafted Content-type header from a malicious HTTP server, and crash a user's instance of Kaffeine or gxine, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Kaffeine users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/kaffeine-0.4.3b-r1"

All gxine users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/gxine-0.3.3-r1"

SecurityTracker Advisory gxine Bug Report CVE-2004-1034 koon lewk jaervosz