debian · CVE-2006-6172

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Priority: medium Published: Updated: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:00:03 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2006-6172 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (mplayer), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

Buffer overflow in the asmrp_eval function in the RealMedia RTSP stream handler (asmrp.c) for Real Media input plugin, as used in (1) xine/xine-lib, (2) MPlayer 1.0rc1 and earlier, and possibly others, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a rulebook with a large number of rulematches.

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