CVE-2008-7185 (GCVE-0-2008-7185)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-09-08 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:56
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Summary
GNOME Rhythmbox 0.11.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a playlist (.pls) file with a long Title field, possibly related to the g_hash_table_lookup function in b-playlist-manager.c.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2008-06-26 00:00
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