National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2430

Overview

Integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/wav.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6h on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large fmt chunk in a WAV file.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-1995

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1995/references

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS

Hyperlink:http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1020429

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020429

External Source: BID

Name: 30058

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30058

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080702 Secunia Research: VLC Media Player WAV Processing Integer Overflow

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/493849/100/0/threaded

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3976

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3976

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200807-13

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml

External Source: MISC

Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-29/advisory/

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-29/advisory/

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31317

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31317

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30601

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30601

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14769

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14769

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14344

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14344

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14344

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14344

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14769

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14769