CVE-2004-1187

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the pnm_get_chunk function for xine 0.99.2, and other packages such as MPlayer that use the same code, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long PNA_TAG values, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-1188.

Affected products

Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: 10.0, 10.1
Mplayer: 0.90, 0.90_pre, 0.90_rc, 0.90_rc4, 0.91, 0.92 (+11)
Xine: 0.9.8, 0.9.13, 0.9.18, 1_alpha, 1_beta1, 1_beta2 (+23)
Xine-Lib: 0.9.8, 0.9.13, 0.99, 1_alpha, 1_beta1, 1_beta2 (+22)

References

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xine/xine-lib/src/input/pnm.c?r1=1.20&r2=1.21
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=176&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:011
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/pnm_fix_20041215.diff
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18640
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xine/xine-lib/src/input/pnm.c?r1=1.20&r2=1.21
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=176&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:011
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/pnm_fix_20041215.diff
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18640

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