Songbird Songbird Media Player up to 0.2 Unicode Converter denial of service
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A vulnerability was found in Songbird Songbird Media Player up to 0.2 (Multimedia Player Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Unicode Converter. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:
Format string vulnerability in Songbird Media Player 0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an M3U Playlist file containing extended ASCII, which causes the Unicode converter to be invoked.
The weakness was disclosed 12/04/2006 by Greg Linares (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-6250 since 12/03/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.
A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (30563).
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.8
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Class: Denial of serviceCWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499
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Remote: Yes
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Timeline
11/29/2006 🔍12/03/2006 🔍
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Sources
Advisory: milw0rm.com⛔Researcher: Greg Linares
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2006-6250 (🔍)
X-Force: 30563 - Songbird Media Player M3U format string denial of service
SecurityFocus: 21343 - Songbird Media Player Denial of Service Vulnerability
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
Entry
Created: 03/12/2015 22:21Updated: 09/27/2017 09:14
Changes: 03/12/2015 22:21 (58), 09/27/2017 09:14 (1)
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