CVE-2008-3794

28Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Attendepss 11%

exploitation probability

11%top 5% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Integer signedness error in the mms_ReceiveCommand function in modules/access/mms/mmstu.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6i allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted mmst link with a negative size value, which bypasses a size check and triggers an integer overflow followed by a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

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References

http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2008-August/048488.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-06.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4190 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44659 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14531 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6293 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/24/3 http://www.orange-bat.com/adv/2008/adv.08.24.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30806 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020759