CVE-2008-1881

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: 2008-04-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ParseSSA function (modules/demux/subtitle.c) in VLC 0.8.6e allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long subtitle in an SSA file. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6681.

Affected products

VideoLAN Vlc: 0.8.6e

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/28233
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/archive/1/489698
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28251
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28274
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41237
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41936
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14872

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