CVE-2008-5245 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2008-5245

xine-lib before 1.1.15 performs V4L video frame preallocation before ascertaining...

Vulnerability Description

xine-lib before 1.1.15 performs V4L video frame preallocation before ascertaining the required length, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, possibly related to a buffer overflow in the open_video_capture_device function in src/input/input_v4l.c.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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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.