PT-2008-1647 · Videolan · Vlc

Published 2008-01-17 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2007-6684

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by sending a request without a Transport parameter. This triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the RTSP module.

Recommendations For VideoLAN VLC version 0.8.6d, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version is prone to crashing due to a NULL pointer dereference when a request lacks a Transport parameter. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-6684

Affected Products

Vlc

References · 10

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-6684 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6684 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6684 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-6684 · Vendor Advisory
• http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/22023 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14876 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6684 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29284 · Note
• http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-September/034722.html · Note