CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3794
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• videolan vlc media player 0.8.6i
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2008-August/048488.html mailman.videolan.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-06.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4190 securityreason.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/24/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.orange-bat.com/adv/2008/adv.08.24.txt Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30806 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020759 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44659 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14531 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6293 www.exploit-db.com
- http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2008-August/048488.html mailman.videolan.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-06.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4190 securityreason.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/24/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.orange-bat.com/adv/2008/adv.08.24.txt Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30806 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020759 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44659 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14531 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6293 www.exploit-db.com