CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-5036

9.3 HIGH Published 2008-11-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-11-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

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.

Affected configurations

• videolan vlc media player 0.9 • videolan vlc media player 0.9.0 • videolan vlc media player 0.9.1 • videolan vlc media player 0.9.2 • videolan vlc media player 0.9.3 • videolan vlc media player 0.9.4 • videolan vlc media player 0.9.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References