CVE-2008-0984

Publication date 26 February 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vlc	7.10 gutsy	Fixed 0.8.6.release.c-0ubuntu5.1
	7.04 feisty	Fixed 0.8.6.release-0ubuntu4.1
	6.10 edgy	Fixed 0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-1ubuntu1.2
	6.06 LTS dapper	Fixed 0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu6.2

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
vlc	Debdiff: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/195949

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0984