CVE-2007-5301

EPSS 44.2%

alsaplayer - stack based buffer overflow in vorbis plugin

Published: 10/9/2007Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

Buffer overflow in the vorbis_stream_info function in input/vorbis/vorbis_engine.c (aka the vorbis input plugin) in AlsaPlayer before 0.99.80-rc3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .OGG file with long comments.

Affected packages (3)

Debian/alsaplayerfrom 0, < 0.99.80~rc4-1
Debian/alsaplayerfrom 0, < 0.99.76-9+etch1
Debian/alsaplayerfrom 0, < 0.99.79-3+lenny1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5301