CVE-2002-1896: Alsaplayer

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Alsaplayer 0.99.71, when installed setuid root, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) -f or (2) -o command line argument.

Affected products

• Alsaplayer Alsaplayer: version 0.99.71 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.