Guido Landi has discovered some vulnerabilities in CoolPlayer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors when processing playlists (".m3u" or ".pls" files). These can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows when loading a playlist containing an overly long, specially crafted filename either starting with a backslash character or not.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 219. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Do not load untrusted playlists.

Provided and/or discovered by
Guido Landi

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Original Advisory
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/6157

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