CVE-2008-4610

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

MPlayer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via (1) a malformed AAC file, as demonstrated by lol-vlc.aac; or (2) a malformed Ogg Media (OGM) file, as demonstrated by lol-ffplay.ogm, different vectors than CVE-2007-6718.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-32856 dos linux verified

Hanno Bock · 2008-10-07

MPlayer - '.AAC' File Handling Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-32857 dos linux verified

Hanno Bock · 2008-10-07

MPlayer - '.OGM' File Handling Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`7:2.4.1-1`
sid	Fixed	`7:2.4.1-1`
forky	Fixed	`7:2.4.1-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`7:2.4.1-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`7:2.4.1-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4610

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.