CVE-2009-4656
Stack-based buffer overflow in E-Soft DJ Studio Pro 4.2 including 4.2.2.7.5, and 5.x including 5.1.4.3.1, allows user-assisted remote…
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Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in E-Soft DJ Studio Pro 4.2 including 4.2.2.7.5, and 5.x including 5.1.4.3.1, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a playlist file (.pls) containing a long string. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 4 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Metasploit modules1 module
- DJ Studio Pro 5.1 .pls Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/fileformat/djstudio_pls_bofRank normaldisclosed 30 Dec 2009
Exploit-DB4 entries
- DJ Studio Pro 5.1 - '.pls' Local Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 18547local, windowspublished 2 Mar 2012Verified
- DJ Studio Pro 5.1.6.5.2 - Local Overflow (SEH) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 18501local, windowspublished 20 Feb 2012Not verified
- DJ Studio Pro 5.1.6.5.2 - Local Overflow (SEH) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 10827local, windowspublished 30 Dec 2009Verified
- DJ Studio Pro 4.2 - '.pls' Local Crash (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9691dos, windowspublished 15 Sept 2009Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 9691 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
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Published
- 14 years later
· 14 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 31.6% · top 1.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (4)
- ADV-2009-2681 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 36728 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- djstudio-pls-dos(53310) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 9691 (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-2009-4621 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2009-4656)Record last updated .