PT-2011-1397 · Videolan · Vlc Media Player

Inn3R · Published 2011-03-28 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2010-3275

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VLC Media Player versions prior to 1.1.8

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted width in an AMV file, related to a "dangling pointer vulnerability." This occurs in the libdirectx plugin.dll component of the affected software.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.1.8, update to version 1.1.8 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of libdirectx plugin.dll when playing AMV files until a patch is applied.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-3275

DSA-2211-1

Affected Products

Vlc Media Player

References · 22

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/vlc_amv.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 http://metasploit.com/modules/exploit/windows/browser/vlc_amv · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/17048 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://exploit-db.com/exploits/17048 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/47012 · Exploit
• http://debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2211 · Vendor Advisory
• http://videolan.org/vlc/releases/1.1.8.html · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-3275 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0759 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3275 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3275 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3275 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43826 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8162 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/517150/100/0/threaded · Note