CVE-2004-0991: MPG123

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in mpg123 before 0.59s-r9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via frame headers in MP2 or MP3 files.

Affected products

• MPG123 MPG123: version 0.59m only; version 0.59n only; version 0.59o only; version 0.59p only; version 0.59q only; version 0.59r only; …
• Suse Suse Linux: version 8.0 only; version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only; version 9.0 only; version 9.1 only; version 9.2 only

Published 2005-01-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.