CVE-2008-3732

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-08-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/tta.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6i allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TTA file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: 0.8.6i

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31512
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-06.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4170
http://www.orange-bat.com/adv/2008/adv.08.16.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30718
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2394
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44510
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14570
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6252
http://secunia.com/advisories/31512
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-06.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4170

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