CVE-2008-1161

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the Matroska demuxer (demuxers/demux_matroska.c) in xine-lib before 1.1.10.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Matroska file with invalid frame sizes.

Affected products

Matroska Demuxer: through 1.1.10

References

http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=a62d6f482a69%3Bstyle=gitweb
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29323
http://secunia.com/advisories/29601
http://secunia.com/advisories/31393
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1536
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:178
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28543
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-635-1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41172
http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=a62d6f482a69%3Bstyle=gitweb
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html

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