MPlayer SAMI Subtitle Parser Buffer Overflow

  • Published: 12 Aug 2011

MPlayer SAMI Subtitle Parser Buffer Overflow

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Type

  • MPlayer SAMI Subtitle Parser

Severity

  • High

Affected products

  • MPlayer

Date

  • 2011-08-12

CVE Reference

  • N/A

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A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer. Exploitation of this vulnerability allowed the execution of arbitrary code by loading a malicious SAMI subtitle file. Proof of concept exploit code was developed for the Windows XP SP3 platform, bypassing DEP.