CVE-2008-5245

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% 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 before 1.1.15 performs V4L video frame preallocation before ascertaining the required length, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, possibly related to a buffer overflow in the open_video_capture_device function in src/input/input_v4l.c.

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://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.securityfocus.com/bid/30698
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2382
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44470
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31502
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020703
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=619869

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