CVE-2008-3794: Videolan Vlc Media Player

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer signedness error in the mms_ReceiveCommand function in modules/access/mms/mmstu.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6i allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted mmst link with a negative size value, which bypasses a size check and triggers an integer overflow followed by a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: version 0.8.6i only

Published 2008-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.