PT-2008-2255 · Mplayer Team · Mplayer

Adam Bozanich · Published 2008-02-06 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2008-0630

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MPlayer versions 1.0rc2 and prior to SVN r25823

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the url.c file, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URL. This occurs because the IPv6 parsing code fails to set a pointer to NULL, causing the buffer to be reused by the unescape code.

Recommendations For MPlayer versions 1.0rc2 and prior to SVN r25823, update to a version after SVN r25823 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0630

DSA-1496-1

DTSA-114-1

Affected Products

Mplayer

References · 12

• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-16.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0630 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1496 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:045 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0630 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0630 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-0630 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28956 · Note
• http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29307 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/27766 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28955 · Note