Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 10, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2008-1161

Description

Buffer overflow in the Matroska demuxer (demuxers/demux_matroska.c) in xine-lib before 1.1.10.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Matroska file with invalid frame sizes.

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Affected products

Matroska Org/Demuxer
cpe:2.3:a:matroska:demuxer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=1.1.10
Xine/Xine Libllm-fuzzy
Range: <1.1.10.1

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References

secunia.com/advisories/29323nvdVendor Advisory
hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-libnvd
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.htmlnvd
secunia.com/advisories/29601nvd
secunia.com/advisories/31393nvd
www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1536nvd
www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
www.securityfocus.com/bid/28543nvd
www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-635-1nvd
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41172nvd

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