| Name | CVE-2008-4610 |
| Description | MPlayer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via (1) a malformed AAC file, as demonstrated by lol-vlc.aac; or (2) a malformed Ogg Media (OGM) file, as demonstrated by lol-ffplay.ogm, different vectors than CVE-2007-6718. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DTSA-181-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 407010, 509616 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ffmpeg (PTS) | buster | 7:4.1.8-0+deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 7:4.1.9-0+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 7:4.3.3-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 7:4.3.4-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, sid | 7:5.0.1-3 | fixed |
| mplayer (PTS) | buster | 2:1.3.0-8 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2:1.4+ds1-1 | fixed |
| sid | 2:1.4+ds1-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
only the aac issue affected mplayer because it built against a copy of faad
the ogm issue is a problem in ffmpeg
just a crasher, no security implications known so far
http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2007-01-16-exposing-file-parsing-vulnerabilities