Nokia Multimedia Player Playlist Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Last Update Date:
28 Jan 2011
Release Date:
13 Jan 2011
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RISK: Medium Risk
A vulnerability has been identified in Nokia Multimedia Player, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when processing playlists (e.g. ".npl") containing overly long data, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or compromise a vulnerable system by tricking a user into opening a malicious playlist file.
Vulnerability has no patch available.Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
Impact
- Remote Code Execution
System / Technologies affected
- Nokia Multimedia Player version 1.0 and prior
Solutions
- It is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
- Workaround: Do not open playlist files from untrusted sources.
Vulnerability Identifier
- No CVE information is available
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