CVE - CVE-2008-5240

CVE-ID
CVE-2008-5240	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
xine-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.
References
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BID:30797 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30797 BUGTRAQ:20080822 [oCERT-2008-008] multiple heap overflows in xine-lib URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495674/100/0/threaded FEDORA:FEDORA-2008-7512 URL:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00385.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2008-7572 URL:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00174.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2009-0542 URL:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00555.html MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2009:020 URL:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:020 MISC:http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-008/analysis.txt OSVDB:47742 URL:http://www.osvdb.org/47742 SECUNIA:31827 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/31827 SECUNIA:33544 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/33544 SREASON:4648 URL:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4648 SUSE:SUSE-SR:2009:004 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html XF:xinelib-demuxmatroska-dos(44653) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44653
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20081125	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20081125)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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