CVE-2008-5036

highpriority · attend · 62EPSS 0.414 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

3 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

41.4% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

8 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USprimary

exploits (3)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-18548VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9.5 - RealText Subtitle Overflow (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
EDB-7051VideoLAN VLC Media Player < 0.9.6 - '.rt' Local Stack Buffer Overflowfunctional · exploit_db
exploit/windows/fileformat/vlc_realtextVLC Media Player RealText Subtitle Overflowfunctional · metasploit

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
videolan vlc media player= 0.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
videolan vlc media player= 0.9.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
videolan vlc media player= 0.9.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
videolan vlc media player= 0.9.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
videolan vlc media player= 0.9.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
videolan vlc media player= 0.9.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
videolan vlc media player= 0.9.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-11-10modified 2026-06-16

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