[MPlayer-DOCS] [homepage]: r2956 - trunk/src/news.src.en
rtogni
subversion at mplayerhq.hu
Wed Jun 6 00:19:09 CEST 2007
Author: rtogni
Date: Wed Jun 6 00:19:08 2007
New Revision: 2956
Log:
Typos and grammar fixes suggested by Corey Hickey and The Wanderer
Modified:
trunk/src/news.src.en
Modified: trunk/src/news.src.en
==============================================================================
--- trunk/src/news.src.en (original)
+++ trunk/src/news.src.en Wed Jun 6 00:19:08 2007
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
<p>
A stack overflow was found and reported by Stefan Cornelius of Secunia
-Researchin in the code used to handle cddb queries. Two other similar issues
+Research in the code used to handle cddb queries. Two other similar issues
were found by Reimar Döffinger while fixing the issue. The vulnerability is
identified with CVE-2007-2948 and
<a href="http://secunia.com/advisories/24302/">SAID 24302</a>.
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
<p>
High (arbitrary remote code execution under the user ID running the player)
when getting disk information from a malicious cddb entry, null if you do not
-use this feature. Please note that is possible to overwrite entries in the cddb
-database, so an attack can be performed also via a non-compromised server.
+use this feature. Please note that it is possible to overwrite entries in the
+cddb database, so an attack can also be performed via a non-compromised server.
At the time the buffer overflow was fixed there was no known exploit in the
wild.
</p>
@@ -53,21 +53,22 @@
</p>
<p>
-If case you can't upgrade or apply the suggested patch, these are some possible
+In case you can't upgrade or apply the suggested patch, these are some possible
workarounds:
<ul>
- <li>Don't use cddb:// urls (be careful also with playlists)</li>
+ <li>Don't use cddb:// URLs (be careful also with playlists)</li>
<li>Redirect freedb.freedb.org to 127.0.0.1 (e.g. via hosts file)</li>
<li>Recompile with --disable-cddb</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
-Please note that we are not releasing an updated tarball with this fix at this
+Please note that we are not releasing an updated tarball with this fix at the
moment.<br>
If you need to stay with 1.0rc1, get the MPlayer 1.0rc1 tarball,
-apply the patch with the fix and recompile MPlayer; else upgrade to SVN.<br>
-If you decide to stay with rc1, don't forget to apply also this
+apply the patch with the fix and recompile MPlayer. If possible, however, we
+recommend that you upgrade to SVN.<br>
+If you decide to stay with rc1, don't forget to also apply this
<a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/asmrules_fix_20061231.diff">older fix.</a>
If you mantain a binary package for MPlayer, please name the updated version
MPlayer 1.0rc1try3.
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