CVE-2008-0984

Publication date 26 February 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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

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

Patch details

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Package Patch details
vlc