VLC media player 3.0.20 and earlier is vulnerable to denial of service through an integer overflow which could be triggered with a maliciously crafted mms stream (heap based overflow). If successful, a malicious third party could trigger either a crash of VLC or an arbitrary code execution with the target user's privileges.
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https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc3021.html |
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Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:30:00 +0000
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Videolan
Videolan vlc Media Player |
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Weaknesses | CWE-122 | |
CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Videolan
Videolan vlc Media Player |
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cvssV3_1
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Description | VLC media player 3.0.20 and earlier is vulnerable to denial of service through an integer overflow which could be triggered with a maliciously crafted mms stream (heap based overflow). If successful, a malicious third party could trigger either a crash of VLC or an arbitrary code execution with the target user's privileges. | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-09-25T15:39:36.371Z
Reserved: 2024-09-11T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2024-46461

Updated: 2024-09-25T15:39:31.700Z

Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2024-09-25T15:15:14.567
Modified: 2024-09-26T13:32:02.803
Link: CVE-2024-46461

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