Vulnerability in Videolan Vlc Media Player
CVE-2008-3794
Integer signedness error in the mms_ReceiveCommand function in modules/access/mms/mmstu.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6i allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted mmst link with a negative size value, which bypasses a size check and triggers an integer overflow followed by a heap-based buffer overflow.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.110 (95.8th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 95.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.110 · newest: 0.110 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Videolan Vlc Media Player — versions 0.8.6i
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.orange-bat.com/adv/2008/adv.08.24.txt (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/30806 (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14531 (signature, vdb-entry)
- mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2008-August/048488.html (mailing-list)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6293 (exploit)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44659 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/4190 (third-party-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/24/3 (mailing-list)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-06.xml (vendor-advisory)