CVE-2008-5036: Videolan Vlc Media Player

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 41.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.x before 0.9.6 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an an invalid RealText (rt) subtitle file, related to the ParseRealText function in modules/demux/subtitle.c. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2008-5032 on 20081110.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: version 0.9 only; version 0.9.0 only; version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.9.4 only; …

Published 2008-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.