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CVE-2008-5036
N/ADescription
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://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e3cef651125701a2e33a8d75b815b3e39681a447(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32569(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33315(cve@mitre.org)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/4(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/5(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/13(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498111/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32125(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-011.txt(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0810.html(cve@mitre.org)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46376(cve@mitre.org)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14329(cve@mitre.org)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7051(cve@mitre.org)
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e3cef651125701a2e33a8d75b815b3e39681a447(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
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/archive/1/498111/100/0/threaded(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://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46376(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14329(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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