CVE-2008-4686

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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

Multiple integer overflows in ty.c in the TY demux plugin (aka the TiVo demuxer) in VideoLAN VLC media player, probably 0.9.4, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .ty file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4654.

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-6825 local windows verified

Guido Landi · 2008-10-23

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9.4 - '.ty' Local Buffer Overflow (SEH)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-6798 local windows verified

Guido Landi · 2008-10-21

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9.4 - '.TY' Local Stack 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.h-4.1`
sid	Fixed	`0.8.6.h-4.1`
forky	Fixed	`0.8.6.h-4.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.8.6.h-4.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.8.6.h-4.1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4686

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

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