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CVE-2007-4938

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in libmpdemux/aviheader.c in MPlayer 1.0rc1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a .avi file with certain large "indx truck size" and nEntriesInuse values, and a certain wLongsPerEntry value.

Affected products

• Mplayer: 1.0_rc1
• Sgi Irix: all versions

References

• http://osvdb.org/45940
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27016
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3144
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:192
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479222/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25648
• http://www.vulnhunt.com/advisories/CAL-20070912-1_Multiple_vendor_produce_handling_AVI_file_vulnerabilities.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36581
• http://osvdb.org/45940
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27016
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3144
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:192

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