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xine-ui — security advisory
XINE 0.99.4 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain M3U file that contains a long #EXTINF line and contains format string specifiers in an invalid udp:// URI, possibly a variant of CVE-2007-0017.
- Products
- xine-ui
- Affected versions
- 0.99.12-2, 0.99.13-1, 0.99.14+hg20240403-1, 0.99.14+hg20251015-1, 0.99.14-1, 0.99.14-2, 0.99.14-2build2, 0.99.9-1.2, 0.99.9-1.3, 0.99.9-1.3build1, 0.99.9-2
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2007-0255
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
XINE 0.99.4 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain M3U file that contains a long #EXTINF line and contains format string specifiers in an invalid udp:// URI, possibly a variant of CVE-2007-0017.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2007-0255
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Complete source record
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