Vulnerability CVE-2008-5276
Published: 2008-12-03   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia (.rm) file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
VLC media player RealMedia Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Tobias Klein
04.12.2008

Type:

CWE-189

 (Numeric Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Videolan -> Vlc media player 

 References:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde00726b66c47a424f4e07
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4680
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498768/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32545
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0811.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3287
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14793
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