CVE-2008-1881

Name	CVE-2008-1881
Description	Stack-based buffer overflow in the ParseSSA function (modules/demux/subtitle.c) in VLC 0.8.6e allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long subtitle in an SSA file. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6681.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-1819-1, DTSA-125-1
Debian Bugs	477805

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
vlc (PTS)	bullseye (security), bullseye	3.0.21-0+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	3.0.21-0+deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	3.0.21-2	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
vlc	source	etch	0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-5.1+etch3		DSA-1819-1
vlc	source	lenny	0.8.6.c-6+lenny4		DTSA-125-1
vlc	source	(unstable)	0.8.6.e-2.1	medium		477805