clementine — security advisory
Clementine Music Player through 1.3.1 (when a GLib 2.0.0 DLL is used) is vulnerable to a Read Access Violation on Block Data Move, affecting the MP3 file parsing functionality at memcpy+0x265. The vulnerability is triggered when the user opens a crafted MP3 file or loads a remote stream URL that is mishandled by Clementine. Attackers could exploit this issue to cause a crash (DoS) of the clementine.exe process or achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current logged-in Windows user.
- Products
- clementine
- Affected versions
- 1.4.0~rc1+git867-g9ef681b0e+dfsg-1, 1.4.0~rc1+git867-g9ef681b0e+dfsg-1.1, 1.4.0~rc1+git867-g9ef681b0e+dfsg-2, 1.4.1+git27-g658f34ec4+dfsg-1, 1.4.1+git27-g658f34ec4+dfsg-2, 1.4.1+git27-g658f34ec4+dfsg-2~exp1, 1.4.1+git27-g658f34ec4+dfsg-3, 1.4.1+git27-g658f34ec4+dfsg-4, 1.4.1+git27-g658f34ec4+dfsg-5
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-40827
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Clementine Music Player through 1.3.1 (when a GLib 2.0.0 DLL is used) is vulnerable to a Read Access Violation on Block Data Move, affecting the MP3 file parsing functionality at memcpy+0x265. The vulnerability is triggered when the user opens a crafted MP3 file or loads a remote stream URL that is mishandled by Clementine. Attackers could exploit this issue to cause a crash (DoS) of the clementine.exe process or achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current logged-in Windows user.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-40827
clementine
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clementine
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clementine
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Complete source record
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