45940 : MPlayer libmpdemux/aviheader.c AVI File Handling Overflow
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2007-09-12

Keywords

CAL-20070912-1

Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : Heap-based buffer overflow in libmpdemux/aviheader.c in MPlayer 1.0rc1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a .avi file with certain large "indx truck size" and nEntriesInuse values, and a certain wLongsPerEntry value.

Classification

Location: Context Dependent

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2007-4938 (see also: NVD) 2007-6718 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 25648
Secunia Advisory ID: 27016
ISS X-Force ID: 36581
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-09/0128.html
Other Advisory URL: http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2007-01-16-exposing-file-parsing-vulnerabilities
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3144
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:192
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/07/1
http://www.vulnhunt.com/advisories/CAL-20070912-1_Multiple_vendor_produce_handling_AVI_file_vulnerabilities.txt

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.3
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