| Name | CVE-2008-0984 |
| Description | The MP4 demuxer (mp4.c) for VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier, as used in Miro Player 1.1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and execute arbitrary code via a malformed MP4 file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1543-1, DTSA-116-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 467652 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| vlc (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.2.7-1~deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 3.0.12-0+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 3.0.20-0+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster | 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u1 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 3.0.20-0+deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.0.20-0+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 3.0.20-0+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 3.0.20-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vlc | source | etch | 0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-5.1+etch2 | DSA-1543-1 | ||
| vlc | source | lenny | 0.8.6.c-6+lenny1 | DTSA-116-1 | ||
| vlc | source | (unstable) | 0.8.6.e-1 | medium | 467652 |