Buffer overflow in Mplayer
CVE-2008-0630
Buffer overflow in url.c in MPlayer 1.0rc2 and SVN before r25823 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URL that prevents the IPv6 parsing code from setting a pointer to NULL, which causes the buffer to be reused by the unescape code.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.039 (90.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.039 · newest: 0.039 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mplayer — versions 1.02rc2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28955 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/27766 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/29307 (third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1496 (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-16.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28956 (third-party-advisory)