PT-2008-1645 · Videolan · Vlc

Luigi Auriemma · Published 2008-01-17 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2007-6682

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VLC versions 0.8.6d

Description The issue is related to a format string vulnerability in the httpd FileCallBack function, located in the network/httpd.c file. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by including format string specifiers in the Connection parameter of an API request.

Recommendations For version 0.8.6d, update to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-6682

DSA-1543-1

Affected Products

Vlc

References · 18

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/485488/30/0/threaded · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/5519 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6682 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6682 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-6682 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-6682 · Vendor Advisory
• http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/23839 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6682 · Note
• http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29284 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/27015 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14790 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29766 · Note