CVE-2008-2430

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-07-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/wav.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6h on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large fmt chunk in a WAV file.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: 0.8.6h

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30601
http://secunia.com/advisories/31317
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-29/advisory/
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3976
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493849/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30058
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020429
http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1995/references
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14344
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14769

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