CVE-2008-5276
Integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia (.rm) file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| videolan / vlc_media_player | 0.9.0 | 0.9.0.x |
| videolan / vlc_media_player | 0.9.4 | 0.9.4.x |
| videolan / vlc_media_player | 0.9.7 | 0.9.7.x |
| videolan / vlc_media_player | 0.9.1 | 0.9.1.x |
| videolan / vlc_media_player | 0.9.5 | 0.9.5.x |
| videolan / vlc_media_player | 0.9.8 | 0.9.8.x |
| videolan / vlc_media_player | 0.9.2 | 0.9.2.x |
| videolan / vlc_media_player | 0.9.3 | 0.9.3.x |
| videolan / vlc_media_player | 0.9.6 | 0.9.6.x |
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde00726b66c47a424f4e07
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde00726b66c47a424f4e07
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32942
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33315
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4680
- http://www.osvdb.org/50333
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498768/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32545
- http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt
- http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0811.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3287
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14793
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