CVE-2008-7185

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2008-7185 · Published 08/09/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-7185 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting rhythmbox (gnome).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.1%, higher than 87.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
rhythmbox gnome	`= 0.11.5`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

packetstormsecurity.org/0806-advisories/rhythmbox-dos.txt · Exploit
securityfocus.com/archive/1/493683/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/archive/1/493809/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/29958 · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43436

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