CVE-2008-5246: 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 before 1.1.15 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors that send ID3 data to the (1) id3v22_interp_frame and (2) id3v24_interp_frame functions in src/demuxers/id3.c. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

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.