CVE-2008-1489

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the MP4_ReadBox_rdrf function in libmp4.c for VLC 0.8.6e allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MP4 RDRF box that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-0984.

Affected products

VideoLAN Vlc: 0.8.6e

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29503
http://secunia.com/advisories/29766
http://secunia.com/advisories/29800
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/09572892df7e72c0d4e598c0b5e076cf330d8b0a
http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28433
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0803.php
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0985
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41412
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14841

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