National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5032

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.5.0 through 0.9.5 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via the header of an invalid CUE image file, related to modules/access/vcd/cdrom.c. NOTE: this identifier originally included an issue related to RealText, but that issue has been assigned a separate identifier, CVE-2008-5036.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: vlcmediaplayer-cue-bo(46375)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46375

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0810.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0810.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-012.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-012.txt

External Source: BID

Name: 32125

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32125

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081106 [TKADV2008-012] VLC media player cue Processing Stack Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/498112/100/0/threaded

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20081110 Re: CVE id request: vlc

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/13

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20081105 CVE id request: vlc

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/5

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20081105 VideoLAN security advisory 0810

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/4

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200812-24

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33315

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33315

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32569

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32569

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14798

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14798

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=5f63f1562d43f32331006c2c1a61742de031b84d

Hyperlink:http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=5f63f1562d43f32331006c2c1a61742de031b84d

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14798

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14798