CVE-2008-5234

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in xine-lib 1.1.12, and other versions before 1.1.15, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) a crafted metadata atom size processed by the parse_moov_atom function in demux_qt.c and (2) frame reading in the id3v23_interp_frame function in id3.c. NOTE: as of 20081122, it is possible that vector 1 has not been fixed in 1.1.15.

Affected products

Xine-Lib: through 1.1.14; 0.9.13, 1-rc0a, 1-rc1, 1-rc2, 1-rc3, 1-rc3a (+41)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31502
http://secunia.com/advisories/31827
http://secunia.com/advisories/33544
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4648
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020703
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=619869
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:020
http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-008/analysis.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495674/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30797
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2382

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