CVE-2008-1881: Videolan Vlc

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 11.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc: version 0.8.6e only

Published 2008-04-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.