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vlc — security advisory
Integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia (.rm) file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
- Products
- vlc
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.9.8a-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2008-5276
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia (.rm) file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5276
vlc
Fixed versions: 0.9.8a-1
vlc
Fixed versions: 0.9.8a-1
vlc
Fixed versions: 0.9.8a-1
Complete source record
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