CVE-2004-1188: Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The pnm_get_chunk function in xine 0.99.2 and earlier, and other packages such as MPlayer that use the same code, does not properly verify that the chunk size is less than the PREAMBLE_SIZE, which causes a read operation with a negative length that leads to a buffer overflow via (1) RMF_TAG, (2) DATA_TAG, (3) PROP_TAG, (4) MDPR_TAG, and (5) CONT_TAG values, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-1187.

Affected products

• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 10.0 only; version 10.1 only
• Mplayer Mplayer: version 0.90 only; version 0.90_pre only; version 0.90_rc only; version 0.90_rc4 only; version 0.91 only; version 0.92 only; …
• Xine Xine: version 0.9.8 only; version 0.9.13 only; version 0.9.18 only; version 1_alpha only; version 1_beta1 only; version 1_beta2 only; …
• Xine Xine-Lib: version 0.9.8 only; version 0.9.13 only; version 0.99 only; version 1_alpha only; version 1_beta1 only; version 1_beta2 only; …

Published 2005-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.