PT-2008-3660 · Videolan · Vlc

Rémi Denis-Courmont · Published 2008-05-12 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-2147

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VideoLAN VLC versions prior to 0.9.0

Description The issue allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library under the modules/ or plugins/ subdirectories of the current working directory. This is due to an untrusted search path vulnerability.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.9.0, update to version 0.9.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-2147

DSA-1819-1

DTSA-132-1

Affected Products

Vlc

References · 10

• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-2147 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2147 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2147 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2147 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42377 · Note
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c7cef4fdd8dd72ce0a45be3cda8ba98df5e83181 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31317 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2147 · Note
• http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1578 · Note