CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10.0. It affects Windows. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2009-0894
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
10
EPSS
5.70%
Windows
Original NVD Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the decoder_create function in the initialization functionality in xvidcore/src/decoder.c in Xvid before 1.2.2, as used by Windows Media Player and other applications, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving the DirectShow (aka DShow) frontend and improper handling of the XVID_ERR_MEMORY return code during processing of a crafted movie file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.