CVE-2008-0296 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the libaccess_realrtsp plugin in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6d and earlier on Windows might allow remote RTSP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long string.

Reference

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcxhof-adv.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/29284 http://secunia.com/advisories/29766 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0105 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14597