CVE-2008-5276
highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.078 · 95 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia (.rm) file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
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affected products (12)
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references (24)
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- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde00726b66c47a424f4e07enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32942enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33315enisa_euvd
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xmlenisa_euvd
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4680enisa_euvd
- http://www.osvdb.org/50333enisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498768/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32545enisa_euvd
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