CVE-2006-6250 describes a format string vulnerability in Songbird Media Player version 0.2 and earlier. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (application crash) by providing a specially crafted M3U playlist file containing extended ASCII characters, which improperly invokes the Unicode converter. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:songbird:songbird_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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