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CVE-2007-6718

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

MPlayer, possibly 1.0rc1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV and application crash) via (1) a malformed MP3 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.mp3; (2) a malformed Ogg Vorbis file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.ogg; (3) a malformed MPEG-1 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.mpg; (4) a malformed MPEG-2 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.m2v; (5) a malformed MPEG-4 AVI file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.avi; (6) a malformed FLAC file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.flac; (7) a malformed Ogg Theora file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.ogm; (8) a malformed WMV file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.wmv; or (9) a malformed AAC file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.aac. NOTE: vector 5 might overlap CVE-2007-4938, and vector 6 might overlap CVE-2008-0486.

Affected products

• Mplayer: through 1.0_rc1; 0.90, 0.90_pre, 0.90_rc, 0.90_rc4, 0.91, 0.92 (+13)

References

• http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2007-01-16-exposing-file-parsing-vulnerabilities
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/07/1
• http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2007-01-16-exposing-file-parsing-vulnerabilities
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/07/1

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