CVE-2008-5237

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% 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-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in xine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) crafted width and height values that are not validated by the mymng_process_header function in demux_mng.c before use in an allocation calculation or (2) crafted current_atom_size and string_size values processed by the parse_reference_atom function in demux_qt.c for an RDRF_ATOM string.

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/31827
http://secunia.com/advisories/33544
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4648
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
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44652
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00174.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00385.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00555.html

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