CVE-2008-7185

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

GNOME Rhythmbox 0.11.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a playlist (.pls) file with a long Title field, possibly related to the g_hash_table_lookup function in b-playlist-manager.c.

Affected products

GNOME Rhythmbox: 0.11.5

References

http://packetstormsecurity.org/0806-advisories/rhythmbox-dos.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493683/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493809/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29958
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43436
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0806-advisories/rhythmbox-dos.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493683/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493809/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29958
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43436

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