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Vulnerability record · CVE-2008-5276 · published 3 December 2008

CVE-2008-5276: Videolan vlc media player vulnerability

Videolan · Vlc Media Player

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.

9.3 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 7.8% · top 5.5% CWE-189 · CWE-189
9.3CVSS 2.0 base score
7.8%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
24References, 2 tagged exploit
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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.

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
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
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

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2008-5276), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.