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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2008-1912 in the critical feed json

Stack-based buffer overflow in DivX Player 6.7 build 6.7.0.22 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of servic…

published 2008-04-22 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1912

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.7%
EPSS 11.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in DivX Player 6.7 build 6.7.0.22 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long subtitle in a .SRT file.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-5453)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

11.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-5492 DivX Player 6.7 - '.srt' File Subtitle Parsing Buffer Overflow local, 2008-04-24
  • EDB-5453 DivX Player 6.7.0 - '.srt' File Buffer Overflow (PoC) dos, 2008-04-15

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.