CVE-2008-5234: Xine Xine-Lib

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 5.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in xine-lib 1.1.12, and other versions before 1.1.15, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) a crafted metadata atom size processed by the parse_moov_atom function in demux_qt.c and (2) frame reading in the id3v23_interp_frame function in id3.c. NOTE: as of 20081122, it is possible that vector 1 has not been fixed in 1.1.15.

Affected products

• Xine Xine-Lib: up to and including 1.1.14; version 0.9.13 only; version 1 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; …

Published 2008-11-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.