Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting videolan package, versions [,2.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
56.14% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371221
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Mar 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-1684  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 2.1.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The ASF_ReadObject_file_properties function in modules/demux/asf/libasf.c in the ASF Demuxer in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 2.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and crash) via a zero minimum and maximum data packet size in an ASF file.

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