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SSA-2004-124-03 xine-lib update

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
SSA-2004-124-03 xine-lib update

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix a
security issue where playing a specially crafted Real RTSP stream could run
malicious code as the user playing the stream.

More details about this issue may be found in this advisory:
http://www.xinehq.de/index.php/security/XSA-2004-3

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Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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