CVE-2008-0630 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/28955 http://secunia.com/advisories/28956 http://secunia.com/advisories/29307 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-16.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1496 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:045 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27766 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.