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ubuntu-cve-2007-0255

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2007-01-16 23:28

Modified

2026-05-20 14:48

Summary

Details

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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-0255	REPORT
	http://xine.sourceforge.net/security	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-0255	REPORT

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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

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

6 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

Show details on NVD website

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

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

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