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CVE-2008-5036

CVE-2008-5036 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.x before 0.9.6 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an an invalid RealText (rt) subtitle file, related to the ParseRealText function in modules/demux/subtitle.c. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2008-5032 on 20081110.

EPSS 68.72% · 98.6th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS v2.0
9.300000190734863
EPSS Score
68.72%
98.6th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a
videolanvlc_media_player0.9, 0.9.0, 0.9.1

Timeline

  • Nov 7, 2008 PoC Published
  • Nov 10, 2008 CVE Published
  • Mar 2, 2012 PoC Published
  • May 29, 2018 PoC Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
  • Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
  • Apr 1, 2023 EPSS Score
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