PT-2012-2938 · Videolan · Vlc Media Player

Fabi@Habsec · Published 2012-01-20 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2012-0904

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VLC media player version 1.1.11

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by utilizing a long string in an amr file.

Recommendations For VLC media player version 1.1.11, consider avoiding the use of amr files with long strings until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to files that could potentially trigger this issue to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-0904

Affected Products

Vlc Media Player

References · 8

• 🔥 http://exploit-db.com/exploits/18309 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0033.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/18309 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/51255 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0904 · Security Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14327 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0904 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72085 · Note