CVE-2008-5246 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-5246 at MITRE

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in xine-lib before 1.1.15 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors that send ID3 data to the (1) id3v22_interp_frame and (2) id3v24_interp_frame functions in src/demuxers/id3.c. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 419541 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:004, published Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:38:34 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:31 2025