Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package smplayer (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-SMPLAYER-616774
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed7 Nov 2017
Introduced: 7 Nov 2017
CVE-2017-2891 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream smplayer package and not the smplayer package as distributed by Ubuntu.
An exploitable use-after-free vulnerability exists in the HTTP server implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. An ordinary HTTP POST request with a CGI target can cause a reuse of previously freed pointer potentially resulting in remote code execution. An attacker needs to send this HTTP request over the network to trigger this vulnerability.