CVE-2008-2430

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2008-2430

    CVE-2008-2430

    Published: 7 Jul 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/wav.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6h on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large fmt chunk in a WAV file.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/30601, http://secunia.com/advisories/31317, http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-29/advisory/, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1995/references, http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3976, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493849/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30058, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020429, http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14344, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14769

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High