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Debian: New mplayer packages fix integer overflows

LinuxSecurity.com: 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 the execution of arbitrary code by supplying a maliciously crafted video file.

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LIBPLAYER-TEST(1)					      General Commands Manual						 LIBPLAYER-TEST(1)

NAME
libplayer-test - a test media player utility which uses libplayer SYNOPSIS
libplayer-test [options ...] [files ...] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the libplayer-test command. libplayer-test is a command-line media player which uses libplayer as a backend. It is mainly used to test and exercise libplayer capabili- ties. OPTIONS
-h --help this help -p --player <player> specify the player (mplayer|xine|vlc|gstreamer) -a --audio <audioout> specify the audio output (alsa|oss|pulse|null) -g --video <videoout> specify the video output (x11|sdl:x11|xv|gl|vdpau|fb|directfb|vaapi|null) -g --quality <level> specify the picture quality (0|1|2, best to worse) -v --verbose increase verbosity Default values are dummy player, auto video and auto audio output. Commands to use libplayer-test: # change playback mode (auto or single) . change loop value and mode , enable/disable shuffle on the playlist % write a text on the OSD k enable/disable OSD +/- increase/decrease speed ]/[ audio delay +/- 100 ms 0/9 increase/decrease volume m set/unset mute 2/1 5s forward/backward 3/4 previous/next audio track 5/6 previous/next subtitle 7/8 previous/next TV analog channel {/} previous/next radio channel (/) previous/next chapter u toggle subtitle visibility a change aspect ratio (original/16:9) l load a stream in the playlist v print properties and metadata of the current stream j take a video snapshot of a specific time position y select a radio channel z select a TV channel i print current time position p start a new playback o pause/unpause the current playback s stop the current playback b start the previous stream in the playlist n start the next stream in the playlist c continue with the next stream accordingly to the playback mode r remove the current stream of the playlist t remove all streams of the playlist q quit libplayer-test Commands for dvdnav: ARROWS menu navigation BACKSPACE return to menu ENTER select SEE ALSO
libplayer-testvdr (1) AUTHOR
libplayer was written by Benjamin Zores <ben@geexbox.org> and Mathieu Schroeter <mathieu.schroeter@mycable.ch>. This manual page was written by Davide Cavalca <davide@geexbox.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 10/12/2009 LIBPLAYER-TEST(1)