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CVE-2008-5248

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% 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-20

Description

xine-lib before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via "MP3 files with metadata consisting only of separators."

Affected products

• Xine-Lib: through 1.1.15; 0.9.13, 1-rc0a, 1-rc1, 1-rc2, 1-rc3, 1-rc3a (+42)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=619869
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:298
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32505
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=619869
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:298
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32505

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