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CVE-2008-5036

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Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A
Published11/10/2008
Last Modified4/23/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

videolan:vlc_media_player

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/32569(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33315(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/4(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/5(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/13(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32125(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-011.txt(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0810.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7051(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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