PT-2008-1141 · Videolan · Vlc Media Player

Published 2008-11-14 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-5276

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VideoLAN VLC media player versions 0.9.0 through 0.9.7

Description The issue is caused by an integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in the Real demuxer plugin, which can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia (.rm) file.

Recommendations For versions 0.9.0 through 0.9.7, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent exploitation. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of the Real demuxer plugin or restricting access to .rm files until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

BDU:2019-00443

CVE-2008-5276

Affected Products

Vlc Media Player

References · 19

• 🔥 http://trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt · Exploit
• 🔥 http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde00726b66c47a424f4e07 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5276 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5276 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5276 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-00443 · Security Note
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://videolan.org/security/sa0811.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32942 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5276 · Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14793 · Note
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde00726b66c47a424f4e07 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32545 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/50333 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/498768/100/0/threaded · Note