9.3 - CVE-2008-5036

Executive Summary

Informations
Name	CVE-2008-5036	First vendor Publication	2008-11-10
Vendor	Cve	Last vendor Modification	2023-11-07

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score	9.3	Attack Range	Network
Cvss Impact Score	10	Attack Complexity	Medium
Cvss Expoit Score	8.6	Authentication	None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5036

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

%	Id	Name
100 %	CWE-119	Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14329

Oval ID:	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14329
Title:	Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.x before 0.9.6
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.
Family:	windows	Class:	vulnerability
Reference(s):	CVE-2008-5036	Version:	7
Platform(s):	Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows XP	Product(s):	VLC Media Player
Definition Synopsis:
VLC media player is installed AND Version of VLC Media Player greater than or equal to 0.9.0 and less than 0.9.6 AND File libsubtitle_plugin.dll exists in plugin directory

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

Type	Description	Count
Application	Videolan Vlc Media Player cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9:::::::*	7

SAINT Exploits

Description	Link
VLC media player RealText subtitle file ParseRealText buffer overflow	More info here

OpenVAS Exploits

Date	Description
2008-12-29	Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-24 (vlc) File : nvt/glsa_200812_24.nasl
2008-11-19	Name : FreeBSD Ports: vlc File : nvt/freebsd_vlc0.nasl
2008-11-14	Name : VLC Media Player Multiple Stack-Based BOF Vulnerabilities - Nov08 (Linux) File : nvt/gb_vlc_media_player_mult_bof_vuln_nov08_lin.nasl
2008-11-14	Name : VLC Media Player Multiple Stack-Based BOF Vulnerabilities - Nov08 (Win) File : nvt/gb_vlc_media_player_mult_bof_vuln_nov08_win.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id	Description
49809	VLC Media Player RealText Demuxer Subtitle File Handling Overflow

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date	Description
2014-01-10	VideoLAN VLC Media Player RealText buffer overflow attempt RuleID : 15166 - Revision : 13 - Type : FILE-MULTIMEDIA

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date	Description
2008-12-26	Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-200812-24.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-10	Name : The remote Windows host contains an application that is affected by multiple ... File : vlc_0_9_6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-09	Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates. File : freebsd_pkg_4b09378eaddb11dda5780030843d3802.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e3cef651125701a2e33a8d7...

Source	Url
BID	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32125
BUGTRAQ	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498111/100/0/threaded
CONFIRM	http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0810.html
EXPLOIT-DB	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7051
GENTOO	http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml
MISC	http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-011.txt
MLIST	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
OVAL	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
SECUNIA	http://secunia.com/advisories/32569 http://secunia.com/advisories/33315
XF	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46376

Alert History

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Date	Informations
2023-11-07 21:47:48	Multiple Updates
2021-05-04 12:08:21	Multiple Updates
2021-04-22 01:08:42	Multiple Updates
2020-05-23 13:16:51	Multiple Updates
2020-05-23 00:22:34	Multiple Updates
2018-10-12 00:20:29	Multiple Updates
2017-09-29 09:23:48	Multiple Updates
2017-08-08 09:24:30	Multiple Updates
2016-04-26 18:01:02	Multiple Updates
2014-02-17 10:47:15	Multiple Updates
2014-01-19 21:25:24	Multiple Updates
2013-05-11 00:30:35	Multiple Updates

Global Informations

Type	Count
CWE ID(s)	1
Oval ID(s)	1
CPE ID(s)	7
Sources(s)	14
Saint Exploit(s)	1
osvdb(s)	1
Openvas Exploit(s)	4
Snort® Rule(s)	1
Nessus® Exploit(s)	3

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