vlc — security advisory
Integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/tta.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6i allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TTA file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
- Products
- vlc
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.8.6.h-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2008-3732
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/tta.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6i allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TTA file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3732
vlc
Fixed versions: 0.8.6.h-2
vlc
Fixed versions: 0.8.6.h-2
vlc
Fixed versions: 0.8.6.h-2
Complete source record
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