CVE-2008-5240: Xine Xine-Lib

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

xine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions, relies on an untrusted input value to determine the memory allocation and does not check the result for (1) the MATROSKA_ID_TR_CODECPRIVATE track entry element processed by demux_matroska.c; and (2) PROP_TAG, (3) MDPR_TAG, and (4) CONT_TAG chunks processed by the real_parse_headers function in demux_real.c; which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted value.

Affected products

• Xine Xine-Lib: up to and including 1.1.15; 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.