Vulnerability in Videolan Vlc Media Player
CVE-2008-5276
Integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia (.rm) file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.078 (94.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.078 · newest: 0.078 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Videolan Vlc Media Player — versions 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498768/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14793 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/50333 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3287 (vdb-entry)
- git.videolan.org/
- secunia.com/advisories/32942 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32545 (vdb-entry)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/4680 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/33315 (third-party-advisory)