National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5240

Overview

xine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions, relies on an untrusted input value to determine the memory allocation and does not check the result for (1) the MATROSKA_ID_TR_CODECPRIVATE track entry element processed by demux_matroska.c; and (2) PROP_TAG, (3) MDPR_TAG, and (4) CONT_TAG chunks processed by the real_parse_headers function in demux_real.c; which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted value.

Impact

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External Source: BID

Name: 30797

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30797

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-0542

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00555.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-7512

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00385.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-7572

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00174.html

External Source: XF

Name: xinelib-demuxmatroska-dos(44653)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44653

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080822 [oCERT-2008-008] multiple heap overflows in xine-lib

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495674/100/0/threaded

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 47742

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/47742

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-008/analysis.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-008/analysis.txt

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2009:020

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:020

External Source: SREASON

Name: 4648

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4648

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33544

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33544

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31827

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31827

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:004

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html