CVE-2008-0296: Videolan Vlc Media Player

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 14.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the libaccess_realrtsp plugin in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6d and earlier on Windows might allow remote RTSP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long string.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: up to and including 0.8.6d

Published 2008-01-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.