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>> MPlayer RTSP Stream "sdpplin_parse()" Array Indexing Vulnerability
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Title : MPlayer RTSP Stream "sdpplin_parse()" Array Indexing Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0997
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1558
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-03-26
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A vulnerability has been identified in MPlayer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an error in the "sdpplin_parse()" [realrtsp/sdpplin.c] function when processing RTSP streams containing specially crafted SDP parameters, which could be exploited by attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory regions and execute malicious code via a specially crafted stream.
Affected Products
MPlayer version 1.0rc2 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0997
Credits
Vulnerability reported by k`sOSe.
ChangeLog
2008-03-25 : Initial release
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