CVE-2007-6718

Description

MPlayer, possibly 1.0rc1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV and application crash) via (1) a malformed MP3 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.mp3; (2) a malformed Ogg Vorbis file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.ogg; (3) a malformed MPEG-1 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.mpg; (4) a malformed MPEG-2 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.m2v; (5) a malformed MPEG-4 AVI file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.avi; (6) a malformed FLAC file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.flac; (7) a malformed Ogg Theora file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.ogm; (8) a malformed WMV file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.wmv; or (9) a malformed AAC file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.aac. NOTE: vector 5 might overlap CVE-2007-4938, and vector 6 might overlap CVE-2008-0486.

4.3

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 0.44%

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/07/1	mailing list
http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2007-01-16-exposing-file-parsing-vulnerabilities

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2007-6718?: CVE-2007-6718 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2007-6718?: To fix CVE-2007-6718, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2007-6718 being actively exploited in the wild?: As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2007-6718 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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