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critical 9.3

CVE-2008-3732 in the critical feed json

Integer 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 servic…

published 2008-08-20 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-3718

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.4%
EPSS 13.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Integer 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.

Patch / fix

  • vlc Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.8.6.h-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3732

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-6252)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

13.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-6252 VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6i - '.tta' File Parsing Heap Overflow (PoC) dos, 2008-08-16
  • orange-bat.com http://www.orange-bat.com/adv/2008/adv.08.16.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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