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CVE-2011-3625

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 24.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-06-11 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the sub_read_line_sami function in subreader.c in MPlayer, as used in SMPlayer 0.6.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a SAMI subtitle file.

Affected products

• Mplayer2: all versions
• Ricardo Villalba Smplayer: 0.6.9

References

• http://git.mplayer2.org/mplayer2/commit/?id=27b88a09c5319deb62221b8cd0ecc14cd1136e4a
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55486
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-13.xml
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/18/12
• https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/system/assets/149/original/mwri_mplayer-sami-subtitles_2011-08-12.pdf
• http://git.mplayer2.org/mplayer2/commit/?id=27b88a09c5319deb62221b8cd0ecc14cd1136e4a
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55486
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-13.xml
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/18/12
• https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/system/assets/149/original/mwri_mplayer-sami-subtitles_2011-08-12.pdf

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