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CVE-2008-1482

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-03-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple integer overflows in xine-lib 1.1.11 and earlier allow remote attackers to trigger heap-based buffer overflows and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted .FLV file, which triggers an overflow in demuxers/demux_flv.c; (2) a crafted .MOV file, which triggers an overflow in demuxers/demux_qt.c; (3) a crafted .RM file, which triggers an overflow in demuxers/demux_real.c; (4) a crafted .MVE file, which triggers an overflow in demuxers/demux_wc3movie.c; (5) a crafted .MKV file, which triggers an overflow in demuxers/ebml.c; or (6) a crafted .CAK file, which triggers an overflow in demuxers/demux_film.c.

Affected products

• Xine-Lib: 1.1.11

References

• http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/xinehof-adv.txt
• http://aluigi.org/poc/xinehof.zip
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29484
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29600
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29622
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29740
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29756
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30337
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31372
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31393
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-01.xml

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