Nero Media Player M3U File Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Last Update Date:
28 Jan 2011
Release Date:
6 Feb 2008
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RISK: Medium Risk
A vulnerability has been identified in Nero Media Player, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when processing a M3U file containing overly long data, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious M3U file.
Impact
- Remote Code Execution
System / Technologies affected
- Nero Media Player 1.x
Solutions
- There is no patch available for this vulnerability currently.
- Workaround: Do not open untrusted .M3U files.
Vulnerability Identifier
- No CVE information is available
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