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CVE-2018-5200
KMPlayer Heap Overflow Vulnerability
High8.0EPSS 1.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- krcert
Description
KMPlayer 4.2.2.15 and earlier have a Heap Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. It could be exploited with a crafted FLV format file. The problem is that more frame data is copied to heap memory than the size specified in the frame header. This results in a memory corruption and remote code execution.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| krcertCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High8.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.0.
Weakness
- Heap based overflow
- CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected KMPlayer – ≤ 4.2.2.15
References (1)
- https://www.boho.or.kr/krcert/secNoticeView.do?bulletin_writing_sequence=30113 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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