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CVE-2008-1881

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2008-04-17 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Videolan Vlc

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References