PT-2011-2019 · Videolan · Vlc Media Player

Dan Rosenberg · Published 2011-01-25 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2011-0021

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 1.1.6

Description The issue is related to multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the CDG decoder. This can be exploited by remote attackers using crafted CDG video files, potentially leading to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.1.6, update to version 1.1.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-0021

Affected Products

Vlc Media Player

References · 14

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-0021 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0021 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/20/3 · Patch
• http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.1.6/vlc-1.1.6.tar.bz2 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-0021 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-0021 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0185 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/45927 · Note
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/64879 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0021 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12460 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64879 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/19/6 · Note
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f9b664eac0e1a7bceed9d7b5854fd9fc351b4aab · Note