PT-2008-1646 · Videolan · Vlc

Quovodis · Published 2008-01-16 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2007-6683

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VideoLAN VLC version 0.8.6d

Description The issue allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via the :demuxdump-file option in a filename in a playlist, or an EXTVLCOPT statement in an MP3 file, possibly an argument injection vulnerability.

Recommendations For VideoLAN VLC version 0.8.6d, consider disabling the browser plugin until a patch is available to prevent remote attackers from overwriting arbitrary files. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the :demuxdump-file option in filenames in playlists and restrict the use of EXTVLCOPT statements in MP3 files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-6683

DSA-1543-1

DTSA-132-1

Affected Products

Vlc

References · 16

• 🔥 http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-December/037726.html · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6683 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-6683 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6683 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-6683 · Vendor Advisory
• https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/23197 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29284 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/42205 · Note
• https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1371 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29766 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6683 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/42206 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/28712 · Note