CVE-2008-5032 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2008-5032

Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.5.0 through...

Vulnerability Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.5.0 through 0.9.5 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via the header of an invalid CUE image file, related to modules/access/vcd/cdrom.c. NOTE: this identifier originally included an issue related to RealText, but that issue has been assigned a separate identifier, CVE-2008-5036.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

vlc media player
Vulnerable Versions:
0.5.0, 0.5.3, 0.6.0, 0.6.2, 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.7.1a, 0.7.2, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.4, 0.8.4a, 0.8.5, 0.8.6, 0.8.6a, 0.8.6b, 0.8.6c, 0.8.6d, 0.8.6e, 0.8.6f, 0.8.6g, 0.8.6h, 0.8.6i, 0.9, 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5

Timeline

Official Publish: November 10th, 2008
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.