CVE-2008-5245: Xine Xine-Lib

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

xine-lib before 1.1.15 performs V4L video frame preallocation before ascertaining the required length, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, possibly related to a buffer overflow in the open_video_capture_device function in src/input/input_v4l.c.

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.