CVE-2007-6478
Stack-based buffer overflow in Rosoft Media Player 4.1.7, 4.1.8, and possibly earlier versions allows remote attackers to execute…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 5.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in Rosoft Media Player 4.1.7, 4.1.8, and possibly earlier versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in a .M3U file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Public exploit
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Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Rosoft Media Player 4.1.7 - '.m3u' Local Stack Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 4749local, windowspublished 18 Dec 2007Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 5122 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.7% · top 7.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 3470 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 39501 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 26920 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20080214 Rosoft Media Player 4.1.8 Buffer Overflow ( .M3U) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2007-4259 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20071218 Rosoft Media Player 4.1.7 crash (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 28144 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- rosoftmediaplayer-m3u-bo(39114) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 5122 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-6444 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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