CVE-2007-4938 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in libmpdemux/aviheader.c in MPlayer 1.0rc1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a .avi file with certain large \indx truck size\ and nEntriesInuse values and a certain wLongsPerEntry value.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/45940 http://secunia.com/advisories/27016 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3144 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:192 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479222/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25648 http://www.vulnhunt.com/advisories/CAL-20070912-1_Multiple_vendor_produce_handling_AVI_file_vulnerabilities.txt https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36581