CVE-2008-1881
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-04-17 23:00
Modified
2024-08-07 08:40
Severity ?
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the ParseSSA function (modules/demux/subtitle.c) in VLC 0.8.6e allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long subtitle in an SSA file. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6681.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
cve@mitre.orghttp://aluigi.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/28233
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/29800
cve@mitre.orghttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml
cve@mitre.orghttp://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489698
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28251
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28274
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41237
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41936
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14872
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5250
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://aluigi.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/28233
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/29800
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489698
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28251
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28274
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41237
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41936
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14872
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5250
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