CVE-2008-1881

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 None

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ParseSSA function (modules/demux/subtitle.c) in VLC 0.8.6e allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long subtitle in an SSA file. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6681.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2008-1881

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2008-04-17T23:05:00

Last Modified Date
2017-09-29T01:30:54

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-119	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc:0.8.6e:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
6.8

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
6.4

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489698
http://aluigi.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28274
http://secunia.com/advisories/29800
http://secunia.com/advisories/28233
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28251
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41936
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41237
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5250
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14872

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1881
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1881

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 08:25:03				Added to TrackCVE