CVE-2008-0984

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The MP4 demuxer (mp4.c) for VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier, as used in Miro Player 1.1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and execute arbitrary code via a malformed MP4 file.

Affected products

Miro Player: through 1.1
VideoLAN VLC: through 0.8.6d

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-February/060481.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29122
http://secunia.com/advisories/29153
http://secunia.com/advisories/29284
http://secunia.com/advisories/29766
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2147
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488841/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28007
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019510
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0802.html

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