Out-of-Bounds Affecting videolan package, versions [,2.0.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
17.77% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371189
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Jul 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jul 2013

CVE-2013-1868  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 2.0.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Multiple buffer overflows in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.0.4 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the (1) freetype renderer and (2) HTML subtitle parser.

CVSS Scores

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