PT-2008-1149 · Videolan · Vlc Media Player

Alin Rad Pop · Published 2008-07-07 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-2430

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 VLC Media Player version 0.8.6h

Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/wav.c, which can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large fmt chunk in a WAV file. This is due to errors in number processing.

Recommendations For VLC Media Player version 0.8.6h, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk of exploitation. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of the Open function in modules/demux/wav.c when handling WAV files until a patch is available. Restrict access to WAV files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

BDU:2019-03970

CVE-2008-2430

DSA-1819-1

DTSA-148-1

Affected Products

Vlc Media Player

References · 25

• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-29/advisory · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-2430 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2430 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=44892734 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2430 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2430 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30601 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1819 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-03970 · Security Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14769 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2430 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30058 · Note
• https://securityfocus.com/archive/1/493849/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14344 · Note