National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5276
Original release date:12/03/2008
Last revised:01/29/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia (.rm) file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
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: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0811.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt
External Source: BID
Name: 32545
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081130 [TKADV2008-013] VLC media player RealMedia Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 50333
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3287
Type: Advisory
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4680
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200812-24
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33315
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32942
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde00726b66c47a424f4e07