CVE-2008-5240

critical

Description

xine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions, relies on an untrusted input value to determine the memory allocation and does not check the result for (1) the MATROSKA_ID_TR_CODECPRIVATE track entry element processed by demux_matroska.c; and (2) PROP_TAG, (3) MDPR_TAG, and (4) CONT_TAG chunks processed by the real_parse_headers function in demux_real.c; which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted value.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00555.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00385.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00174.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44653

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30797

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495674/100/0/threaded

http://www.osvdb.org/47742

http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-008/analysis.txt

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:020

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4648

http://secunia.com/advisories/33544

http://secunia.com/advisories/31827

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-11-26

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical