CVE-2008-5032
Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.5.0 through 0.9.5 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via the header of an invalid CUE image file, related to modules/access/vcd/cdrom.c. NOTE: this identifier originally included an issue related to RealText, but that issue has been assigned a separate identifier, CVE-2008-5036.
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-119
- EPSS score
- 10.7% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-5011)
- Published
- November 10, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-5011 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
References
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5f63f1562d43f32331006c2c1a61742de031b84d
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32569(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33315(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/05/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/13
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498112/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32125
- http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-012.txt(Exploit)
- http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0810.html(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46375
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14798
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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