Buffer overflow in Videolan Vlc Media Player
CVE-2007-6262
A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a "bad initialized pointer," aka a "recursive plugin release vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.111 (95.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Videolan Vlc_media_player — versions 0.8.6, 0.8.6a, 0.8.6b
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)