CVE-2008-1881 (GCVE-0-2008-1881)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-04-17 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:40
VLAI?
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the ParseSSA function (modules/demux/subtitle.c) in VLC 0.8.6e allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long subtitle in an SSA file. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6681.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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