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CVE-2008-5036

CVE-2008-5036

50Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 41%
from disclosure to weapon1208 days
Published on NVDNov 10
1st PoC+1208d
metasploitNov 5
exploitation probability
41%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.x before 0.9.6 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an an invalid RealText (rt) subtitle file, related to the ParseRealText function in modules/demux/subtitle.c. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2008-5032 on 20081110.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
public PoCs found — 2
exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/18548unverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7051unverified
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References
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e3cef651125701a2e33a8d75b815b3e39681a447http://secunia.com/advisories/32569http://secunia.com/advisories/33315http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xmlhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46376https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14329https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7051http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/4http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/5http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/13http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498111/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32125