CVE-2007-4938: mplayer

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-4938 is a high (CVSS 7.6) vulnerability in mplayer. EPSS estimates a 16.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 18-09-2007
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.