CVE-2008-4654: Videolan Vlc Media Player

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 57.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the parse_master function in the Ty demux plugin (modules/demux/ty.c) in VLC Media Player 0.9.0 through 0.9.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TiVo TY media file with a header containing a crafted size value.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: version 0.9 only; version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.9.4 only

Published 2008-10-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.