MPlayer SAMI Subtitle Parser Buffer Overflow

  • Published: 12 Aug 2011
  • Type: MPlayer SAMI Subtitle Parser
  • Severity: High

Affected Products

MPlayer

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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.