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CVE-2008-5036

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
10/11/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.x before 0.9.6 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an an invalid RealText (rt) subtitle file, related to the ParseRealText function in modules/demux/subtitle.c. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2008-5032 on 20081110.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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