CVE-2008-5234 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2008-5234

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in xine-lib 1.1.12, and other versions...

Vulnerability Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in xine-lib 1.1.12, and other versions before 1.1.15, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) a crafted metadata atom size processed by the parse_moov_atom function in demux_qt.c and (2) frame reading in the id3v23_interp_frame function in id3.c. NOTE: as of 20081122, it is possible that vector 1 has not been fixed in 1.1.15.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

xine-lib
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.9.13, 1, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3a, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.1.7, 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.1.9.1, 1.1.10, 1.1.10.1, 1.1.11, 1.1.11.1, 1.1.12, 1.1.13, 1_beta1, 1_beta2, 1_beta3, 1_beta4, 1_beta5, 1_beta6, 1_beta7, 1_beta8, 1_beta9, 1_beta10, 1_beta11, 1_beta12

Timeline

Official Publish: November 26th, 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.