Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201802-7

Severity: High
Date : 2018-02-13
CVE-ID : CVE-2018-6360
Package : mpv
Type : arbitrary code execution
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-605

Summary

The package mpv before version 1:0.27.1-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary
code execution.

Resolution

Upgrade to 1:0.27.1-1.

pacman -Syu “mpv>=1:0.27.1-1”

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 0.27.1.

Workaround

None.

Description

mpv allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web
site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and
accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist
in player/lua/ytdl_hook.lua. For example, an av://lavfi:ladspa=file=
URL signifies that the product should call dlopen on a shared object
file located at an arbitrary local pathname. The issue exists because
the product does not consider that youtube-dl can provide a potentially
unsafe URL.

Impact

A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on the affected host by
tricking the user into playing a malicious web page.

References

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases/tag/v0.27.1
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/e6e6b0dcc7e9b0dbf35154a179b3dc1fcfcaff43
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/5456
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-6360