CVE-2007-4938

EPSS 10.3%

mplayer - denial of service via crafted .avi file

Published: 9/18/2007Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

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.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/mplayerfrom 0, < 1.0~rc1-16.1
Debian/mplayerfrom 0, < 1.0~rc1-16+lenny1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4938