PT-2007-4246 · Mplayer · Mplayer

Published 2007-06-07 · Updated 2017-07-29 · CVE-2007-2948

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MPlayer versions prior to 1.0rc1try3

Description The issue is related to multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the stream cddb.c file of MPlayer. This occurs when processing a CDDB entry with either a long album title or a long category, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0rc1try3, update to version 1.0rc1try3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to CDDB entries with long album titles or categories to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-2948

DSA-1313-1

Affected Products

Mplayer

References · 21

• http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-announce/2007-June/000066.html · Patch
• http://debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1313 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-2948 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2948 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2948 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-2948 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24302 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-07.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:143 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html · Note
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-55 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2080 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/36991 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26083 · Note