CVE-2008-1769

N/A Unknown

Published: April 25, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

VLC before 0.8.6f allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Cinepak file that triggers an out-of-bounds array access and memory corruption.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214627#c3

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit%3Bh=cf489d7bff3c1b36b2d5501ecf21129c78104d98

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/29503

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/29800

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28904

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0803.php

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0985

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14445

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214627#c3