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CVE-2008-1881
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 6.8/10
- Exploit Score
- 8.6/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Medium
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 6.4/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Partial
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- Partial
Products Affected
| CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc:0.8.6e:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489698
- http://aluigi.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
- http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28274
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29800
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28233
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28251
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41936
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41237
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5250
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1