Out-of-Bounds Affecting videolan package, versions [,2.2.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
18.28% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371228
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Aug 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-5949  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 2.2.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 3GP file, which triggers the freeing of arbitrary pointers.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1