CVE-2008-0984

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

The MP4 demuxer (mp4.c) for VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier, as used in Miro Player 1.1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and execute arbitrary code via a malformed MP4 file.

The MP4 demuxer (mp4.c) for VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier, as used in Miro Player 1.1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and execute arbitrary code via a malformed MP4 file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2008-02-26 19:44:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-15 22:04:00

Affected Software

VideoLAN VLC Media Player

References

20080227 CORE-2008-0130: VLC media player chunk context validation error

29122

Vendor Advisory

29153

Vendor Advisory

29284

Vendor Advisory

29766

Vendor Advisory

http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2147

DSA-1543

GLSA-200803-13

20080227 CORE-2008-0130: VLC media player chunk context validation error

28007

1019510

http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0802.html

Patch

ADV-2008-0682

Vendor Advisory

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