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CVE-2008-5276 Detail

Description

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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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde00726b66c47a424f4e07 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32942 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33315 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml CVE, MITRE
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4680 CVE, MITRE
http://www.osvdb.org/50333 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498768/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32545 CVE, MITRE
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0811.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3287 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14793 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-189 Numeric Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-5276
NVD Published Date:
12/03/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE