Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting videolan package, versions [,1.0.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.45% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371168
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Dec 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Dec 2014

CVE-2010-1443  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 1.0.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The parse_track_node function in modules/demux/playlist/xspf.c in the XSPF playlist parser in VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty location element in an XML Shareable Playlist Format (XSPF) document.

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