Name: CVE-2008-5036: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2008-11-10T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2008-5036, CWE-119, Metasploit Module, CVSS 8.8, EPSS 0.41444

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 8.8

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade vlc	Jul 30, 2024	Nov 10, 2008
Freebsd	—	Upgrade vlc-develUpgrade vlc	Dec 10, 2025	Nov 8, 2008
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade media-video/vlc.	Oct 30, 2017	Nov 10, 2008
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade vlc	Nov 19, 2024	Nov 10, 2008

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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