CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-0894
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-06-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the decoder_create function in the initialization functionality in xvidcore/src/decoder.c in Xvid before 1.2.2, as used by Windows Media Player and other applications, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving the DirectShow (aka DShow) frontend and improper handling of the XVID_ERR_MEMORY return code during processing of a crafted movie file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Affected configurations
• xvid xvid (<= 1.2.1)
• xvid xvid 1.1.0
• xvid xvid 1.1.1
• xvid xvid 1.1.2
• xvid xvid 1.1.3
• xvid xvid 1.2.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://cvs.xvid.org/cvs/viewvc.cgi/xvidcore/src/decoder.c Exploit, Patch
- http://cvs.xvid.org/cvs/viewvc.cgi/xvidcore/src/decoder.c?r1=1.80&r2=1.81 Exploit, Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35158 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.xvid.org/News.64.0.html?&cHash=0170b4e439&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=64&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=7 www.xvid.org
- https://www.it-isac.org/postings/cyber/alertdetail.php?id=4635&selyear=2009&menutype=menupublic www.it-isac.org
- http://cvs.xvid.org/cvs/viewvc.cgi/xvidcore/src/decoder.c Exploit, Patch
- http://cvs.xvid.org/cvs/viewvc.cgi/xvidcore/src/decoder.c?r1=1.80&r2=1.81 Exploit, Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35158 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.xvid.org/News.64.0.html?&cHash=0170b4e439&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=64&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=7 www.xvid.org
- https://www.it-isac.org/postings/cyber/alertdetail.php?id=4635&selyear=2009&menutype=menupublic www.it-isac.org