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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4105-1 mpv -- security update

Date Reported:

06 Feb 2018

Affected Packages:

mpv

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 888654.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-6360.

More information:

It was discovered that mpv, a media player, was vulnerable to remote code execution attacks. An attacker could craft a malicious web page that, when used as an argument in mpv, could execute arbitrary code in the host of the mpv user.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.23.0-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mpv packages.

For the detailed security status of mpv please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mpv