National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3732
Original release date:08/20/2008
Last revised:01/29/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/tta.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6i allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TTA file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: vlc-mediaplayer-open-bo(44510)
External Source: BID
Name: 30718
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.orange-bat.com/adv/2008/adv.08.16.txt
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 6252
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2394
Type: Advisory
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4170
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200809-06
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31512
Type: Advisory