CVE-2008-3827

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer underflows in the Real demuxer (demux_real.c) in MPlayer 1.0_rc2 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process termination) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted video file that causes the stream_read function to read or write arbitrary memory.

Affected products

Mplayer: through 1.0_rc2; 0.90, 0.90_pre, 0.90_rc, 0.90_rc4, 0.91, 0.92 (+14)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/32045
http://secunia.com/advisories/32153
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4326
http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/libmpdemux/demux_real.c?r1=27314&r2=27675
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1644
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:219
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-013.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496806/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31473
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020952
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2703
http://secunia.com/advisories/32045

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