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Nokia PC Suite Multimedia Player Playlist Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 28 Jan 2011 Release Date: 5 Feb 2009 5354 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

A vulnerability has been identified in Nokia PC Suite, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the Multimedia Player when processing playlists (e.g. ".m3u") with 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 playlist file.


Impact

  • Denial of Service
  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • Nokia PC Suite 6.x
  • Nokia Multimedia Player 1.x

Solutions

Do not process untrusted m3u files using Nokia Multimedia Player.


Vulnerability Identifier

  • No CVE information is available

Source


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