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CVE-2008-5036

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2008-11-10 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Videolan Vlc Media Player

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References