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CVE-2007-6718

Published: Oct 20, 2008Updated: Apr 23, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDNVD-CWE-Other
NVD MITRE
4.3CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
1.5%
Top 29.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
No Fix Available

Description

MPlayer, possibly 1.0rc1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV and application crash) via (1) a malformed MP3 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.mp3; (2) a malformed Ogg Vorbis file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.ogg; (3) a malformed MPEG-1 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.mpg; (4) a malformed MPEG-2 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.m2v; (5) a malformed MPEG-4 AVI file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.avi; (6) a malformed FLAC file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.flac; (7) a malformed Ogg Theora file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.ogm; (8) a malformed WMV file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.wmv; or (9) a malformed AAC file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.aac. NOTE: vector 5 might overlap CVE-2007-4938, and vector 6 might overlap CVE-2008-0486.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:MAu:NC:NI:NA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:MAccess Complexity
Medium
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

mplayermplayer
On-prem
Consumer Software / media-player
n/an/a
mplayeross-projectConsumer Softwareaka mplayer, unix-mplayer

Exploitability

No known exploits, KEV entries, or remediation guidance available for this vulnerability yet.

References

http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2007-01-16-exposing-file-parsing-vulnerabilities
sam.zoy.org
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/07/1
openwall.com

Timeline

Published
Oct 20, 2008
Last Updated
Apr 23, 2026

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