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>> DivX Player "Skins" Arbitrary files overwriting Vulnerability
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Title : DivX Player "Skins" Arbitrary files overwriting Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0050
CVE ID : CVE-2005-0304
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-01-23
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A new vulnerability was reported in DivX Player, which could be exploited by a remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files or compromise a vulnerable system. The flaw resides in the processing of Skin (.dps) file names containing directory traversal character sequences, which may allow breaking out of the download directory, and overwriting existing files (i.e ..\..\..\..\windows\notepad.exe).
Affected Products
DivX Player version 2.6 and earlier
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any official supplied patch for this issue.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0050
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/divxplayer-adv.txt
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Luigi Auriemma
ChangeLog
2005-01-23 : Initial release
2005-02-11 : Updated CVE
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