MPlayer Security Advisory #01: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow

Severity: HIGH if playing ASX streaming content LOW if playing only normal files Description: A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer. A malicious host can craft a harmful ASX header, and trick MPlayer into executing arbitrary code upon parsing that header. MPlay...

MPlayer buffer overflow

Buffer overflow during ASX file parsing...

MPlayer 0.91.0 - Streaming ASX Header Parsing Buffer Overrun

MPlayer 0.91.0 - Streaming ASX Header Parsing Buffer Overrun source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8702/info A vulnerability has been discovered in MPLayer when handling malformed streaming ASX file headers. The problem occurs due to insufficient bounds checking performed within asfhttpreques...

MPlayer 0.9/1.0 - Streaming ASX Header Parsing Buffer Overrun

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8702/info A vulnerability has been discovered in MPLayer when handling malformed streaming ASX file headers. The problem occurs due to insufficient bounds checking performed within asfhttprequest. It has been demonstrated that it is possible for a remote...