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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.012 (67.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 67th percentile — 67.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Videolan Vlc Media Player — versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/524626 (mailing-list, Exploit)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16781 (signature, vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)