Vulnerability in Videolan Vlc Media Player
CVE-2012-5855
The SHAddToRecentDocs function in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.0.4 and earlier might allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file name that triggers an incorrect string-length calculation when the file is added to VLC. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries or whether it can be exploited without user interaction.
EPSS: 0.012 (65.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Videolan Vlc_media_player — versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)