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$ cve CVE-2007-5301 JSON

CVE-2007-5301 EXPLOIT

6.8
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 10.2% (pctl 96)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Buffer overflow in the vorbis_stream_info function in input/vorbis/vorbis_engine.c (aka the vorbis input plugin) in AlsaPlayer before 0.99.80-rc3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .OGG file with long comments.

Scoring

CVSS6.8 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
VectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS10.24% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs
WeaknessCWE-119
On CISA KEVno
Public exploityes
Published2007-10-09
Last modified2026-06-16

Affected (1)

VendorProduct
alsaplayeralsaplayer

Public exploits

References

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