CVE-2004-1379

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-09-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the DVD subpicture decoder in xine xine-lib 1-rc5 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a (1) DVD or (2) MPEG subpicture header where the second field reuses RLE data from the end of the first field.

Affected products

Xine: 1_alpha, 1_beta1, 1_beta2, 1_beta3, 1_beta4, 1_beta5 (+16)
Xine-Lib: 0.9.8, 1_beta2, 1_beta3, 1_beta4, 1_beta5, 1_beta6 (+13)

References

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.320308
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-657
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-30.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/375482/2004-09-02/2004-09-08/0
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11205
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/131bd7c4-64a3-11d9-829a-000a95bc6fae.html
http://xinehq.de/index.php/security/XSA-2004-5
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17423
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.320308
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-657
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-30.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/375482/2004-09-02/2004-09-08/0

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