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CVE-2007-0255 (GCVE-0-2007-0255)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-01-16 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 12:12
VLAI
Summary
XINE 0.99.4 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain M3U file that contains a long #EXTINF line and contains format string specifiers in an invalid udp:// URI, possibly a variant of CVE-2007-0017.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22252 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456523/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/23931 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://osvdb.org/31666 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Date Public
2007-01-10 00:00
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