Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2008-5276 First vendor Publication 2008-12-03
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

Integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia (.rm) file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5276

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14793
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14793
Title: Integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7
Description: Integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia (.rm) file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-5276
Version: 6
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:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 9

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-12-29 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200812-24 (vlc)
File : nvt/glsa_200812_24.nasl
2008-12-10 Name : FreeBSD Ports: vlc-devel
File : nvt/freebsd_vlc-devel.nasl
2008-12-09 Name : VLC Media Player Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (Linux)
File : nvt/gb_vlc_media_player_intgr_bof_vuln_lin.nasl
2008-12-09 Name : VLC Media Player Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (Win)
File : nvt/gb_vlc_media_player_intgr_bof_vuln_win.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50333 VLC Media Player modules/demux/real.c ReadRealIndex() Function Remote Overflow

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 VideoLAN VLC real.c ReadRealIndex real demuxer integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 15241 - Revision : 15 - 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
2008-12-09 Name : The remote Windows host contains an application that is affected by an intege...
File : vlc_0_9_8a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-08 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_acf80afac3ef11dda7210030843d3802.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde007...
Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32545
BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498768/100/0/threaded
CONFIRM http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0811.html
GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml
MISC http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt
OSVDB http://www.osvdb.org/50333
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/32942
http://secunia.com/advisories/33315
SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4680
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3287

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