CVE-2008-5276

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.

• CWE-189

• http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde00726b66c47a424f4e07
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32942Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33315
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4680
• http://www.osvdb.org/50333
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498768/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32545
• http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txtExploit
• http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0811.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3287
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14793
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde00726b66c47a424f4e07
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32942Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33315
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4680
• http://www.osvdb.org/50333
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498768/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32545
• http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txtExploit
• http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0811.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3287
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14793

Published

Dec 3, 2008

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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