CVE-2009-0894

2022-10-0316:24:09

mitre

www.cve.org

buffer overflow

xvid vulnerability

windows media player

7.8 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.037 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.8%

JSON

Heap-based buffer overflow in the decoder_create function in the initialization functionality in xvidcore/src/decoder.c in Xvid before 1.2.2, as used by Windows Media Player and other applications, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving the DirectShow (aka DShow) frontend and improper handling of the XVID_ERR_MEMORY return code during processing of a crafted movie file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.