CVE-2008-3732

NameCVE-2008-3732
DescriptionInteger overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/tta.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6i allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TTA file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDTSA-166-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
vlc (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2.2.7-1~deb8u1fixed
stretch (security)3.0.12-0+deb9u1fixed
stretch (lts), stretch3.0.21-0+deb9u1fixed
buster, buster (lts)3.0.21-0+deb10u1fixed
buster (security)3.0.20-0+deb10u1fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye3.0.21-0+deb11u1fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm3.0.21-0+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie3.0.21-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
vlcsourceetch(not affected)
vlcsourcelenny0.8.6.h-1+lenny1DTSA-166-1
vlcsource(unstable)0.8.6.h-2

Notes

[etch] - vlc <not-affected> (TTA module not present)

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