$ cve CVE-2006-6288 JSON

CVE-2006-6288 EXPLOIT

4.6

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 6.8% (pctl 94)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Niek Albers CoolPlayer 216 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a playlist file with long song names, because of an overflow in the CPL_AddPrefixedFile function in CPI_Playlist.c; (2) a skin file with long button names, because of an overflow in the main_skin_check_ini_value function in skin.c; and (3) a skin file with long bitmap filenames, because of an overflow in the main_skin_open function in skin.c.

Scoring

CVSS	4.6 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS	6.77% — more likely to be exploited than 94% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-119
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2006-12-04
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
niek albers	coolplayer

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	CoolPlayer 2.17 - '.m3u' Local Stack Overflow	2008-01-05

References

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