CVE-2008-0295

Videolan Vlc Media Player < 0.8.6d - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in modules/access/rtsp/real_sdpplin.c in the Xine library, as used in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6d and earlier, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via long Session Description Protocol (SDP) data.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC

pythonlocalwindows

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5498

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References (9)

[Third Party Advisory] http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcxhof-adv.txt

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/28383

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14776

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27221

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/29284

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/29766

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0105

Scores

EPSS 0.3294

EPSS Percentile 96.8%

Classification

CWE

CWE-119

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

videolan/vlc_media_player < 0.8.6d

Timeline

Published Jan 16, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026