How severe is CVE-2008-5236?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 9.3 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2008-5236?

This is classified as CWE-119, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2008-5236 - HIGH Severity | CVSS 9.3

Vulnerability Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in xine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) a crafted EBML element length processed by the parse_block_group function in demux_matroska.c; (2) a certain combination of sps, w, and h values processed by the real_parse_audio_specific_data and demux_real_send_chunk functions in demux_real.c; and (3) an unspecified combination of three values processed by the open_ra_file function in demux_realaudio.c. NOTE: vector 2 reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix in 1.1.15.

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