CVE-2008-1881

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.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5250

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14872

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41936

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41237

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28274

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28251

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489698

http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/29800

http://secunia.com/advisories/28233

http://aluigi.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3