PT-2009-3627 · Videolan · Vlc

Theleader · Published 2009-03-23 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2009-1045

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 VLC version 0.9.8a

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in stack consumption and crash, by providing a long input argument in an in play action to the requests/status.xml file.

Recommendations For VLC version 0.9.8a, consider restricting access to the requests/status.xml file to minimize the risk of exploitation, and avoid using long input arguments in in play actions until a fix is available.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-1045

Affected Products

Vlc

References · 11

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/34126 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/8213 · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1045 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1045 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1045 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-1045 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/17/4 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14357 · Note
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262708 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1045 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49249 · Note