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CVE-2008-5236

• 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 1.1.15 and earlier versions, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) a crafted EBML element length processed by the parse_block_group function in demux_matroska.c; (2) a certain combination of sps, w, and h values processed by the real_parse_audio_specific_data and demux_real_send_chunk functions in demux_real.c; and (3) an unspecified combination of three values processed by the open_ra_file function in demux_realaudio.c. NOTE: vector 2 reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix in 1.1.15.

Affected products

• Xine: through 1.1.5; 0.9.13, 1-beta1, 1-beta10, 1-beta11, 1-beta12, 1-beta2 (+32)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31502
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31567
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31827
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33544
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4648
• 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.osvdb.org/47744
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495674/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30797

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