CVE-2007-4938 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-4938
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Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in libmpdemux/aviheader.c in MPlayer 1.0rc1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a .avi file with certain large "indx truck size" and nEntriesInuse values, and a certain wLongsPerEntry value.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/36581 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3144 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA27016 OSVDB 45940 MISC http://www.vulnhunt.com/advisories/CAL-20070912-1_Multiple_vendor_produce_handling_AVI_file_vulnerabilities.txt MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:192 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/479222/100/0/threaded BID 25648

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