CVE-2008-0296

Heap-based buffer overflow in the libaccess_realrtsp plugin in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6d and earlier on Windows might allow remote RTSP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long string.

Score

CVSS 2.0 10.0 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2008-01-16

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Vlc Media Player (Videolan)

References

• http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcxhof-adv.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29284
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29766
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0105
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14597