Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-6718 - Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in MPlayer

047910
CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
mplayer
nessus

Summary

MPlayer, possibly 1.0rc1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV and application crash) via (1) a malformed MP3 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.mp3; (2) a malformed Ogg Vorbis file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.ogg; (3) a malformed MPEG-1 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.mpg; (4) a malformed MPEG-2 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.m2v; (5) a malformed MPEG-4 AVI file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.avi; (6) a malformed FLAC file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.flac; (7) a malformed Ogg Theora file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.ogm; (8) a malformed WMV file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.wmv; or (9) a malformed AAC file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.aac. NOTE: vector 5 might overlap CVE-2007-4938, and vector 6 might overlap CVE-2008-0486.

Nessus

  • NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
    NASL idMANDRIVA_MDVSA-2009-335.NASL
    descriptionA vulnerability was discovered and corrected in ffmpeg : MPlayer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via (1) a malformed AAC file, as demonstrated by lol-vlc.aac; or (2) a malformed Ogg Media (OGM) file, as demonstrated by lol-ffplay.ogm, different vectors than CVE-2007-6718 (CVE-2008-4610). Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id43362
    published2009-12-21
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/43362
    titleMandriva Linux Security Advisory : ffmpeg (MDVSA-2009:335)
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201310-13.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201310-13 (MPlayer: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MPlayer and the bundled FFmpeg. Please review the CVE identifiers and FFmpeg GLSA referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could entice a user to open a crafted media file to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id70648
    published2013-10-27
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/70648
    titleGLSA-201310-13 : MPlayer: Multiple vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
    NASL idMANDRAKE_MDKSA-2007-192.NASL
    descriptionA heap-based buffer overflow was found in MPlayer
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id26902
    published2007-10-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/26902
    titleMandrake Linux Security Advisory : mplayer (MDKSA-2007:192)