CVE-2008-0296

N/A Unknown

Published: January 16, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the libaccess_realrtsp plugin in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6d and earlier on Windows might allow remote RTSP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long string.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcxhof-adv.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://secunia.com/advisories/29284

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/29766

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0105

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14597

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcxhof-adv.txt