| 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 |
| NVD severity | medium |
| Debian Bugs | 407010, 509616 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ffmpeg (PTS) | stretch | 7:3.2.14-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 7:3.2.15-0+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster, buster (security) | 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 7:4.3.1-6 | fixed | |
| sid | 7:4.3.1-7 | fixed | |
| mplayer (PTS) | stretch | 2:1.3.0-6 | fixed |
| buster | 2:1.3.0-8 | fixed | |
| bullseye, sid | 2:1.4+ds1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ffmpeg | source | (unstable) | 7:2.4.1-1 | unimportant | ||
| ffmpeg-debian | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | 509616 | |
| mplayer | source | lenny | 1.0~rc2-17+lenny2 | DTSA-181-1 | ||
| mplayer | source | (unstable) | 1.0~rc2-20 | 407010 | ||
| xmovie | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant |
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