CVE-2008-5036

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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 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.

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-18548 local windows verified

Metasploit · 2012-03-02

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9.5 - RealText Subtitle Overflow (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-7051 local windows verified

SkD · 2008-11-07

VideoLAN VLC Media Player < 0.9.6 - '.rt' Local Stack Buffer Overflow

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/fileformat/vlc_realtext rank 400

VLC Media Player RealText Subtitle Overflow

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.0.3-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.0.3-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.0.3-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.0.3-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.0.3-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5036

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

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