Out-of-Bounds Affecting videolan package, versions [,1.0.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.19% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371178
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Dec 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Dec 2014

CVE-2010-1442  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 Out-of-Bounds. VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted byte stream to the (1) AVI, (2) ASF, or (3) Matroska (aka MKV) demuxer.

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