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DivX Player Subtitle Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29780
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Release Date:
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2008-04-16
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Last Update:
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2008-04-22
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | DivX for Windows 6.x
DivX Player 6.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-1912 (Secunia mirror)
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This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
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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.
Solution:
Disable the automatic loading of subtitles. Do not open untrusted subtitles.
Provided and/or discovered by:
securfrog
Additional information provided by Secunia Research.
Changelog:
2008-04-17: Updated advisory based on additional information from Secunia Research.
2008-04-22: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/5453
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