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DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5036

DEBIAN-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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12vlc0, 0, 0
Debian:14vlc0, 0, 0
Debian:11vlc0, 0, 0
Debian:13vlc0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Nov 10, 2008 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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