CVE-2008-5276
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 7.8%EU EUVD
Integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia (.rm) file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
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
- 7.8% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-5253)
- Published
- December 3, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-5253 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
References
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d19de4e9f2211cbe5bde00726b66c47a424f4e07
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32942(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33315
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4680
- http://www.osvdb.org/50333
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498768/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32545
- http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt(Exploit)
- http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0811.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3287
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14793
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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