CVE-2009-2896: Kde Kmplayer

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in KMplayer 2.9.4.1433 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long string in a subtitle (.srt) playlist file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Kde Kmplayer: up to and including 2.9.4.1433; version 2.9.3.1210 only

Published 2009-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.