Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-7185

Title: Gnome Rhythmbox Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-7185

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Sep 08, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-7185: 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.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-7185 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31968

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 08, 2009 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.