CVE-2008-5036

no score yetEPSS 41%

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.

EPSS: 41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2008-11-10
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

videolan:vlc_media_player

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e3cef651125701a2e33a8d75b815b3e39681a447
http://secunia.com/advisories/32569
http://secunia.com/advisories/33315
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/4

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