National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1768
Original release date:04/25/2008
Last revised:01/27/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple integer overflows in VLC before 0.8.6f allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via the (1) MP4 demuxer, (2) Real demuxer, and (3) Cinepak codec, which triggers a buffer overflow.
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:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-0985
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200804-25
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29503
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14412
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0803.php
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS
External Source: BID
Name: 28903
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29800
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14412
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
