PT-2008-6385 · Xine · Xine-Lib

Published 2008-11-26 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-5243

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions xine-lib versions 1.1.12 through 1.1.15

Description The issue is related to the real parse headers function in demux real.c, which relies on an untrusted input length value. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted value, likely due to an array index error.

Recommendations For xine-lib versions 1.1.12 through 1.1.15, consider updating to a version later than 1.1.15 to resolve the issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5243

Affected Products

Xine-Lib

References · 13

• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:020 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00555.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00174.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5243 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00385.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33544 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4648 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44658 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30797 · Note
• http://ocert.org/analysis/2008-008/analysis.txt · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31827 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/495674/100/0/threaded · Note