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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2008-5036 EUVD-2008-5015GHSA-qr75-p27m-crxr

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 v…

Published Nov 10, 2008 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Package: vlc Ecosystem: Debian

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 vlc 1.0.3-1 —
Debian 13 vlc 1.0.3-1 —
Debian 12 vlc 1.0.3-1 —

Public exploits

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Metasploit 1 module

Exploit-DB 2

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