Techworld: Big Bug Fix for Linux a Month in Coming

“Linux vendors are urging users to patch a serious bug in the
graphical user interface of the popular Mplayer media player
application, which could allow a remote attacker to execute
malicious code on a Linux or Unix system.

“Gentoo Linux released an advisory on Monday, instructing users
to upgrade to the latest version of Mplayer. However, developers
have warned that more bugs of the same sort are likely to be
uncovered in Mplayer’s GUI and recommended administrators to switch
the interface off…”

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