CVE-2005-1692

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in gxine 0.4.1 through 0.4.4, and other versions down to 0.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a ram file with a URL whose hostname contains format string specifiers.

Affected products

Xine Gxine: 0.41, 0.42, 0.43, 0.44

References

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xine/gnome-xine/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111670637812128&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/15451
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200505-19.xml
http://www.0xbadexworm.org/adv/gxinefmt.txt
http://www.osvdb.org/16747
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13707
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0626
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xine/gnome-xine/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111670637812128&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/15451
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200505-19.xml

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