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CVE-2008-0984 Detail

Current Description

The MP4 demuxer (mp4.c) for VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier, as used in Miro Player 1.1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and execute arbitrary code via a malformed MP4 file.

Source:  MITRE      Last Modified:  02/26/2008      View Analysis Description

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-0984
Original release date:
02/26/2008
Last revised:
06/20/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:
9.3 HIGH
Vector:
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector:
Network exploitable - Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity:
Medium
Authentication:
Not required to exploit
Impact Type:
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource Type Source Name
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-February/060481.html External Source FULLDISC 20080227 CORE-2008-0130: VLC media player chunk context validation error
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2147 External Source MISC http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2147
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543 External Source DEBIAN DSA-1543
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml External Source GENTOO GLSA-200803-13
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/488841/100/0/threaded External Source BUGTRAQ 20080227 CORE-2008-0130: VLC media player chunk context validation error
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28007 External Source BID 28007
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019510 External Source SECTRACK 1019510
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0802.html Patch External Source CONFIRM http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0802.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0682 Vendor Advisory External Source VUPEN ADV-2008-0682

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)

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