National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-0630

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

Hyperlink:http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

External Source: BID

Name: 27766

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27766

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:045

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:045

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1496

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1496

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200803-16

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-16.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29307

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29307

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28956

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28956

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28955

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28955