CVE-2009-0894

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 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: yes
Published: 2009-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the decoder_create function in the initialization functionality in xvidcore/src/decoder.c in Xvid before 1.2.2, as used by Windows Media Player and other applications, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving the DirectShow (aka DShow) frontend and improper handling of the XVID_ERR_MEMORY return code during processing of a crafted movie file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Xvid: through 1.2.1; 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.2.0

References

http://cvs.xvid.org/cvs/viewvc.cgi/xvidcore/src/decoder.c
http://cvs.xvid.org/cvs/viewvc.cgi/xvidcore/src/decoder.c?r1=1.80&r2=1.81
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35158
http://www.xvid.org/News.64.0.html?&cHash=0170b4e439&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=64&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=7
https://www.it-isac.org/postings/cyber/alertdetail.php?id=4635&selyear=2009&menutype=menupublic
http://cvs.xvid.org/cvs/viewvc.cgi/xvidcore/src/decoder.c
http://cvs.xvid.org/cvs/viewvc.cgi/xvidcore/src/decoder.c?r1=1.80&r2=1.81
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35158
http://www.xvid.org/News.64.0.html?&cHash=0170b4e439&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=64&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=7
https://www.it-isac.org/postings/cyber/alertdetail.php?id=4635&selyear=2009&menutype=menupublic

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