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CVE-2008-5276

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2008-12-06	vlc -- arbitrary code execution in the RealMedia processor

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CVE-2008-5276 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2008-5276
Phase	Assigned(20081128)

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.

References

Source	Reference
BUGTRAQ	20081130 [TKADV2008-013] VLC media player RealMedia Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
MISC	http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt
CONFIRM	http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde00726b66c47a424f4e07
CONFIRM	http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0811.html
GENTOO	GLSA-200812-24
BID	32545
VUPEN	ADV-2008-3287
OSVDB	50333
SECUNIA	32942
SECUNIA	33315
SREASON	4680