CVE-2007-5301

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-10-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the vorbis_stream_info function in input/vorbis/vorbis_engine.c (aka the vorbis input plugin) in AlsaPlayer before 0.99.80-rc3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .OGG file with long comments.

Affected products

Alsaplayer: through 0.99.80-rc2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/27117
http://secunia.com/advisories/29680
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=742584
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=544663&group_id=249
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1538
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490671/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25969
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3393
http://www.wekk.net/research/CVE-2007-5301/CVE-2007-5301-exploit.sh
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36996
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5424
http://secunia.com/advisories/27117

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