CVE-2007-6718 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.3 Published 20 Oct 2008 Updated 16 Sep 2024

Remote attackers can crash MPlayer by tricking users into opening malformed media files, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2007-6718?

CVE-2007-6718 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Oct 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-6718?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mplayer Mplayer.

How do I fix CVE-2007-6718?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2007-6718 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-6718 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6718, GHSA-r35q-7952-c6qv.