CVE-2008-0296

Published: Jan 16, 2008Modified: Apr 23, 2026

10.0

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 10.0

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Videolan: Vlc Media Player

Videolan

1 product

Vlc Media Player

Configuration A

1 vulnerable · 1 platform

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Videolan Vlc Media Player	Up to 0.8.6d

Running on/with	Platform Versions
Microsoft Windows	All versions

Related CWEs

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (14)

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcxhof-adv.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://secunia.com/advisories/29284

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/29766

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0105

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14597

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcxhof-adv.txt