CVE-2009-0893
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in xvidcore/src/decoder.c in the xvidcore library in Xvid before 1.2.2, as used by Windows Media Player and other applications, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a crafted macroblock (aka MBlock) number in a video stream in a crafted movie file that triggers heap memory corruption, related to a "missing resync marker range check" and the (1) decoder_iframe, (2) decoder_pframe, and (3) decoder_bframe functions.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 6.5% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0890)
- Published
- June 2, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0890 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- xvid / xvid
- xvid / xvid
- xvid / xvid
- xvid / xvid
- xvid / xvid
- xvid / xvid
References
- http://cvs.xvid.org/cvs/viewvc.cgi/xvidcore/src/decoder.c
- http://cvs.xvid.org/cvs/viewvc.cgi/xvidcore/src/decoder.c?r1=1.80&r2=1.81(Exploit, Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35274(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35156
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1468(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.xvid.org/News.64.0.html?&cHash=0170b4e439&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=64&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=7
- https://www.it-isac.org/postings/cyber/alertdetail.php?id=4634&selyear=2009&menutype=menupublic
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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