Access Restriction Bypass Affecting videolan package, versions [,0.8.1337)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371203
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 May 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 May 2008

CVE-2008-2147  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 0.8.1337 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library under the modules/ or plugins/ subdirectories of the current working directory.

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