VUPEN Security - BS.Player Subtitle Parsing Client-Side Buffer Overflow Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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>> BS.Player Subtitle Parsing Client-Side Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : BS.Player Subtitle Parsing Client-Side Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1243
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-16

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A vulnerability has been identified in BS.Player, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when parsing overly long subtitles, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted SRT file.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Muris Kurgas (j0rgan).

ChangeLog

2008-04-16 : Initial release

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