CVE-2008-5036
HIGH severity · CVSS 9.3 · Memory corruption
9.3CVSS HIGH
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.x before 0.9.6 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an an invalid RealText (rt) subtitle file, related to the ParseRealText function in modules/demux/subtitle.c. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2008-5032 on 20081110.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)41%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e3cef651125701a2e33a8d75b815b3e39681a447
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32569
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33315
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/13
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498111/100/0/threaded