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DivX Player Subtitle Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA29780
Release Date: 2008-04-16
Last Update: 2008-04-22
Popularity: 7,075 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:DivX for Windows 6.x
DivX Player 6.x

Binary Analysis: BA443 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA460 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in DivX Player, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors in the processing of subtitle files (*.SRT, *.SUB). These can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows via a specially crafted, overly long subtitle line contained in a malicious SRT or SUB file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that the user is tricked into opening a specially crafted SRT or SUB file.

The vulnerability is confirmed in DivX Player 6.7 (build 6.7.0.22). Other versions may also be affected.

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