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>> SubEdit Player Subtitles Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : SubEdit Player Subtitles Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1306
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1973
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-21
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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.
Affected Products
SubEdit Player build 4066 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1306
Credits
Vulnerability reported by grzdyl.
ChangeLog
2008-04-21 : Initial release
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