CVE-2008-5036 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=e3cef651125701a2e33a8d75b815b3e39681a447 http://secunia.com/advisories/32569 http://secunia.com/advisories/33315 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/13 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498111/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32125 http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-011.txt http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0810.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46376 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14329 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7051