CVE-2008-1881

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 12%

from disclosure to weapon36 days

Published on NVDApr 17

1st PoC+36d

exploitation probability

12%top 4% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ParseSSA function (modules/demux/subtitle.c) in VLC 0.8.6e allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long subtitle in an SSA file. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6681.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/5667unverified cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/5250unverified

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References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt http://aluigi.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/28233 http://secunia.com/advisories/29800 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41237 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41936 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14872 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5250 http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489698 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28251