Download gxine 0.5.10

The gxine program is the GTK front end for xine, an open source multimedia player for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Irix, and Mac OS X. The program can play CDs, DVDs, and VCDs, as well as play avi, mov, wmv, and mp3 files and also multimedia streams from the internet are no problem at all. Version 0.5.10 has been released by the developers with the following changes since the previous entry in the muck tracker:

This release fixes a security bug (possible local exploit). If you are using any older version, you are advised to upgrade to this version or a suitably-patched version supplied by your chosen distribution. Other than that, just a few miscellaneous fixes…

• SECURITY FIX (local exploit)
  This version fixes a potential buffer overflow in gxine’s server component and in gxine_client. This overflow would occur were $HOME sufficiently long – 94 bytes or more would cause socket creation or connection failure, and 242 bytes or more would cause a segfault or possible arbitrary code execution.
• DBus support is now enabled by default (for gnome-screensaver).
• Add support for gnome-screensaver >= 2.15 & fix a build bug.
• Whoops. The GNOME screensaver could still be activated despite gxine’s configuration when in windowed mode.
• Added ‘CHANNELPREV’ event (for vdr-xine 0.7.10).
• Deferred preferences window initialization until it’s actually opened. (This noticeably speeds up startup.)
• Fixed some indexing errors in the playlist drag&drop code.
• Some small filename buffer usage cleanups.