CVE-2011-5162

critical
Published 2012-09-15 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
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 GOM Player 2.1.33.5071 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .ASX file with a long URI in the "ref href" tag. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2007-0707 regression.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-18174 local windows verified
Debasish Mandal ยท 2011-11-30

GOM Player 2.1.33.5071 - '.asx' File Unicode Stack Buffer Overflow

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gomlabgom_player2.1.33.5071

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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