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mplayer — security advisory
Buffer overflow in url.c in MPlayer 1.0rc2 and SVN before r25823 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URL that prevents the IPv6 parsing code from setting a pointer to NULL, which causes the buffer to be reused by the unescape code.
- Products
- mplayer
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.0~rc2-8
- CVEs
- CVE-2008-0630
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Buffer overflow in url.c in MPlayer 1.0rc2 and SVN before r25823 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URL that prevents the IPv6 parsing code from setting a pointer to NULL, which causes the buffer to be reused by the unescape code.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0630
mplayer
Fixed versions: 1.0~rc2-8
mplayer
Fixed versions: 1.0~rc2-8
mplayer
Fixed versions: 1.0~rc2-8
Complete source record
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