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CVE-2008-0296

CRITICAL
10.0
CVSS Severity Score
EPSS Score0.1360%
EPSS Percentile7.35th
PublishedJan 16, 2008
Last ModifiedApr 23, 2026

Vulnerability Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the libaccess_realrtsp plugin in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6d and earlier on Windows might allow remote RTSP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long string.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦
Videolan

Vlc Media Player

<= 0.8.6d

References & Advisories

🔗 http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcxhof-adv.txt
🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/29284
🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/29766
🔗 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543
🔗 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml
🔗 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0105
🔗 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14597
🔗 http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcxhof-adv.txt

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