CVE-2008-5239: Xine Xine-Lib

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

xine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions, does not properly handle (a) negative and (b) zero values during unspecified read function calls in input_file.c, input_net.c, input_smb.c, and input_http.c, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors such as (1) a file or (2) an HTTP response, which triggers consequences such as out-of-bounds reads and heap-based buffer overflows.

Affected products

• Xine Xine-Lib: version 0.9.13 only; version 1 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3a only; …

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