CVE-2008-3794
Integer signedness error in the mms_ReceiveCommand function in modules/access/mms/mmstu.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6i allows remote…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 11.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Integer signedness error in the mms_ReceiveCommand function in modules/access/mms/mmstu.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6i allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted mmst link with a negative size value, which bypasses a size check and triggers an integer overflow followed by a heap-based buffer overflow.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6i - Mms Protocol Handling Heap Overflow (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 6293dos, multiplepublished 23 Aug 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 6293 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.0% · top 4.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- http://www.orange-bat.com/adv/2008/adv.08.24.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 30806 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14531 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- [vlc-devel] 20080824 commit: MMS integers handling fixes, including buffer overflow ( Rémi Denis-Courmont ) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 6293 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- vlcmediaplayer-memmove-bo(44659) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1020759 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 4190 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080824 Re: CVE id request: vlc (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-200809-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-3780 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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