CVE-2008-2430
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 5.9%EU EUVD
Integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/wav.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6h on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large fmt chunk in a WAV file.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 5.9% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2425)
- Published
- July 7, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2425 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / windows nt
- videolan / vlc media player
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30601(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31317
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-29/advisory/(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3976
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493849/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30058
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020429
- http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1995/references
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14344
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14769
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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