CVE-2008-5259: Divx Web Player

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 5.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer signedness error in DivX Web Player 1.4.2.7, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a DivX file containing a crafted Stream Format (STRF) chunk, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Divx Divx Web Player: up to and including 1.4.2.7; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.2 only; …

Published 2009-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.