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medium 5.0

CVE-2008-4610 json

MPlayer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via (1) a malformed AAC file, as demonstrated by lol-vlc.a…

published 2008-10-20 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-4590

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.3%
EPSS 9.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • ffmpeg Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 7:2.4.1-1
  • mplayer Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0~rc2-20

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4610

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-32857)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

9.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-32857 MPlayer - '.OGM' File Handling Denial of Service dos, 2008-10-07
  • EDB-32856 MPlayer - '.AAC' File Handling Denial of Service dos, 2008-10-07

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

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.