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CVE-2008-5239

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% 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

xine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions, does not properly handle (a) negative and (b) zero values during unspecified read function calls in input_file.c, input_net.c, input_smb.c, and input_http.c, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors such as (1) a file or (2) an HTTP response, which triggers consequences such as out-of-bounds reads and heap-based buffer overflows.

Affected products

• Xine-Lib: 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/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/44651
• 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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