CVE-2007-6718· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

MPlayer, possibly 1.0rc1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV and application crash) via (1) a malformed MP3 file,

MPlayer, possibly 1.0rc1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV and application crash) via (1) a malformed MP3 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.mp3; (2) a malformed Ogg Vorbis file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.ogg; (3) a malformed MPEG-1 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.mpg; (4) a malformed MPEG-2 file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.m2v; (5) a malformed MPEG-4 AVI file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.avi; (6) a malformed FLAC file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.flac; (7) a malformed Ogg Theora file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.ogm; (8) a malformed WMV file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.wmv; or (9) a malformed AAC file, as demonstrated by lol-mplayer.aac. NOTE: vector 5 might overlap CVE-2007-4938, and vector 6 might overlap CVE-2008-0486.

MediumCVSS 4.3 · v2.0—No exploit Fix available

Published: Oct 20, 2008
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 1.5% · 73th percentile
CWE: —

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CVSS: 17 / 40 · 4.3 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 1.5%

Affected systems

Vendor	Product	CPE
mplayer	mplayer	cpe:2.3:a:mplayer:mplayer

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

mplayer mplayerup to 1.0_rc1 inclusive
mplayer mplayer0.90
mplayer mplayer0.90_pre
mplayer mplayer0.90_rc
mplayer mplayer0.90_rc4
mplayer mplayer0.91
mplayer mplayer0.92
mplayer mplayer0.92_cvs
mplayer mplayer0.92.1
mplayer mplayer1.0_pre1
mplayer mplayer1.0_pre2
mplayer mplayer1.0_pre3
mplayer mplayer1.0_pre3try2
mplayer mplayer1.0_pre4
mplayer mplayer1.0_pre5
mplayer mplayer1.0_pre5try1
mplayer mplayer1.0_pre5try2
mplayer mplayer1.0_pre6
mplayer mplayer1.0_pre7
mplayer mplayer1.0_pre7try2

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Debian:12	mplayer	before 1.0~rc3+svn20100502-1	1.0~rc3+svn20100502-1

Same product

mplayer: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2004-0386Buffer overflow in the HTTP parser for MPlayer 1.0pre3 and earlier, 0.90, and 0.91 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a l
48Plan
CVE-2008-1558Uncontrolled array index in the sdpplin_parse function in stream/realrtsp/sdpplin.c in MPlayer 1.0 rc2 allows remote attackers to overwrite
45Plan
CVE-2004-0659Buffer overflow in TranslateFilename for common.c in MPlayer 1.0pre4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long file name.
45Plan
CVE-2008-5616Stack-based buffer overflow in the demux_open_vqf function in libmpdemux/demux_vqf.c in MPlayer 1.0 rc2 before r28150 allows remote attacker
42Plan
CVE-2004-1310Stack-based buffer overflow in the asf_mmst_streaming.c functionality for MPlayer 1.0pre5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
42Plan
CVE-2004-1311Integer overflow in the real_setup_and_get_header function in real.c for Unix MPlayer 1.0pre5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of s
42Plan

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
debian:mplayer	1.0~rc3+svn20100502-1 · Debian:12	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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EPSS, last 120 days

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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Attack conditions

If successful

Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: P · the service can be disrupted

Attack complexity: M
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: P

Weakness class (CWE)

—

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:48 PM UTC

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References

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