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DivX Player Subtitle Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory:

SA29780

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Release Date:

2008-04-16

Last Update:

2008-04-22

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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

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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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