CVE-2008-1881

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-5667 local windows verified

j0rgan · 2008-05-23

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6d SSA Parsing Double Sh311 - Universal

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-5250 local windows verified

Mai Xuan Cuong · 2008-03-14

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6e - Subtitle Parsing Local Buffer Overflow

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.8.6.e-2.1`
sid	Fixed	`0.8.6.e-2.1`
forky	Fixed	`0.8.6.e-2.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.8.6.e-2.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.8.6.e-2.1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-1881

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.