CVE-2008-1881 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1881
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Description: Stack-based buffer overflow in the ParseSSA function (modules/demux/subtitle.c) in VLC 0.8.6e allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long subtitle in an SSA file. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6681.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41936 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41237 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29800 Secunia Advisory: SA28233 MISC http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt http://aluigi.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt MILW0RM http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/5250 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml CONFIRM http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489698 BID 28274 28251

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