MPlayer SAMI Subtitle Parser Buffer Overflow

    Type

  • MPlayer SAMI Subtitle Parser

    • Severity

  • High

    • Affected products

  • MPlayer

    • Date

  • 2011-08-12

    • CVE Reference

  • N/A

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer. Exploitation of this vulnerability allowed the execution of arbitrary code by loading a malicious SAMI subtitle file. Proof of concept exploit code was developed for the Windows XP SP3 platform, bypassing DEP.