National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5242
Original release date:11/26/2008
Last revised:08/20/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
demux_qt.c in xine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions, does not validate the count field before calling calloc for STSD_ATOM atom allocation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted media file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
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 unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 30797
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7512
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7572
External Source: XF
Name: xinelib-demuxqtc-stsdatom-dos(44657)
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080822 [oCERT-2008-008] multiple heap overflows in xine-lib
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-008/analysis.txt
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4648
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31827
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:004