CVE-2005-2718: Mplayer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in ad_pcm.c in MPlayer 1.0pre7 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted PCM audio data, as demonstrated using a video file with an audio header containing a large value in a stream format (strf) chunk.

Affected products

• Mplayer Mplayer: up to and including 1.0_pre7

Published 2005-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.