CVE-2008-1769

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-04-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

VLC before 0.8.6f allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Cinepak file that triggers an out-of-bounds array access and memory corruption.

Affected products

VideoLAN Vlc: 0.1.99, 0.1.99a, 0.1.99b, 0.1.99c, 0.1.99d, 0.1.99e (+54)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214627#c3
http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit%3Bh=cf489d7bff3c1b36b2d5501ecf21129c78104d98
http://secunia.com/advisories/29503
http://secunia.com/advisories/29800
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml
http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28904
http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0803.php
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0985
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14445
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214627#c3

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