Buffer overflow in Mplayer

CVE-2008-5616

Stack-based buffer overflow in the demux_open_vqf function in libmpdemux/demux_vqf.c in MPlayer 1.0 rc2 before r28150 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed TwinVQ file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.077 (94.4th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2008-5616: held from 0.077 to 0.077.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.077 · newest: 0.077 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Mplayer — versions 0.90, 0.90_pre, 0.90_rc

Weakness classification (CWE)

References