CVE-2008-5242: Xine Xine-Lib

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

demux_qt.c in xine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions, does not validate the count field before calling calloc for STSD_ATOM atom allocation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted media file.

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.