CVE-2008-5036
Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.x before 0.9.6 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 41.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.x before 0.9.6 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an an invalid RealText (rt) subtitle file, related to the ParseRealText function in modules/demux/subtitle.c. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2008-5032 on 20081110.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- VLC Media Player RealText Subtitle Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/fileformat/vlc_realtextRank gooddisclosed 5 Nov 2008
Exploit-DB2 entries
- VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9.5 - RealText Subtitle Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 18548local, windowspublished 2 Mar 2012Verified
- VideoLAN VLC Media Player < 0.9.6 - '.rt' Local Stack Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 7051local, windowspublished 7 Nov 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 7051 (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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By mitre
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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 41.4% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
14
- [oss-security] 20081105 VideoLAN security advisory 0810 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e3cef651125701a2e33a8d75b815b3e39681a447 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20081106 [TKADV2008-011] VLC media player RealText Processing Stack Overflow Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0810.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 7051 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- vlcmediaplayer-realtext-bo(46376) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-011.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081105 CVE id request: vlc (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081110 Re: CVE id request: vlc (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 32569 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 33315 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14329 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 32125 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-200812-24 (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-2008-5015 (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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