CVE-2008-5245

NameCVE-2008-5245
Descriptionxine-lib before 1.1.15 performs V4L video frame preallocation before ascertaining the required length, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, possibly related to a buffer overflow in the open_video_capture_device function in src/input/input_v4l.c.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
xine-libsourceetch(not affected)
xine-libsource(unstable)1.1.14-3low

Notes

[etch] - xine-lib <not-affected> (The version from Etch doesn't yet perform pre-allocation)

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