CVE-2006-0051

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in playlistimport.cpp in Kaffeine Player 0.4.2 through 0.7.1 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via long HTTP request headers when Kaffeine is "fetching remote playlists", which triggers the overflow in the http_peek function.

Affected products

Kaffeine Player: 0.4.2, 0.4.3, 0.4.3b, 0.5_rc1, 0.7.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19525
http://secunia.com/advisories/19540
http://secunia.com/advisories/19542
http://secunia.com/advisories/19549
http://secunia.com/advisories/19557
http://secunia.com/advisories/19571
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015863
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1023
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-04.xml
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060404-1.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:065
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_08_sr.html

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