FrSIRT - SubEdit Player Subtitles Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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SubEdit Player Subtitles Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : SubEdit Player Subtitles Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1306
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1973
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-21

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SubEdit 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 file.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by grzdyl.

ChangeLog

2008-04-21 : Initial release

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