CVE-2008-5240

Summary

CVECVE-2008-5240
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-11-26 01:30:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-11 20:54:00 UTC
Descriptionxine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions, relies on an untrusted input value to determine the memory allocation and does not check the result for (1) the MATROSKA_ID_TR_CODECPRIVATE track entry element processed by demux_matroska.c; and (2) PROP_TAG, (3) MDPR_TAG, and (4) CONT_TAG chunks processed by the real_parse_headers function in demux_real.c; which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted value.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Xine Xine-lib 0.9.13 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc0a All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc1 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc2 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc3 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc3a All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc3b All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc3c All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc4 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc4a All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc5 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc6a All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc7 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc8 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.0 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.0.1 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.0.2 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.0.3a All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.0 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.1 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.10 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.10.1 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.11 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.11.1 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.12 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.13 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.14 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.2 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.3 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.4 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.5 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.6 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.7 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.8 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.9 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.9.1 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta1 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta10 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta11 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta12 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta2 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta3 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta4 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta5 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta6 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta7 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta8 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta9 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 0.9.13 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc0a All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc1 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc2 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc3 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc3a All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc3b All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc3c All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc4 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc4a All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc5 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc6a All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc7 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1 rc8 All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.0 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.0.1 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.0.2 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.0.3a All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.0 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.1 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.10 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.10.1 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.11 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.11.1 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.12 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.13 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.14 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.2 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.3 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.4 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.5 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.6 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.7 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.8 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.9 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1.1.9.1 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta1 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta10 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta11 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta12 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta2 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta3 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta4 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta5 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta6 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta7 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta8 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib 1_beta9 All All All
Application Xine Xine-lib All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
xine-lib 1.1.15 and Prior Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Patch
47742 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: xine-lib-1.1.15-1.fc8 FEDORA www.redhat.com
www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-008/analysis.txt MISC www.ocert.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: xine-lib-1.1.15-1.fc9 FEDORA www.redhat.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:004 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:020 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
multiple heap overflows in xine-lib - CXSecurity.com SREASON securityreason.com
Fedora update for xine-lib - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Fedora update for xine-lib - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: xine-lib-1.1.16-1.fc9.1 FEDORA www.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690559 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for libxine (51d1d428-42f0-11de-ad22-000e35248ad7)
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