PT-2008-1147 · Videolan · Vlc

Published 2008-04-12 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2008-1769

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VLC versions prior to 0.8.6f

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) through a crafted Cinepak file. This file triggers an out-of-bounds array access and memory corruption. The vulnerability is related to resource management errors in the VideoLAN VLC media player.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.8.6f, update to version 0.8.6f or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of Cinepak files until a patch is applied. Restrict access to potentially malicious Cinepak files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

BDU:2019-03968

CVE-2008-1769

DSA-1819-1

DTSA-125-1

Affected Products

Vlc

References · 22

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/5498 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1769 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1769 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-1769 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=44892734 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1819.en.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-1769 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-03968 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29800 · Note
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214627#c3 · Note
• https://videolan.org/security/sa0803.php · Note
• https://cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2008-1769 · Note
• http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1769 · Note