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CVE-2008-5036

Fixed in a distro release EPSS 41%

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.

Published 2008-11-10 · CVE record · OSV

Products: videolan vlc_media_player

Distro releases

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian 12vlc1.0.3-1
Debian 13vlc1.0.3-1
Debian 14vlc1.0.3-1