PT-2013-1845 · Videolan · Vlc Media Player

Published 2013-07-10 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2012-5855

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 versions 2.0.4 and earlier

Description The issue might allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file name that triggers an incorrect string-length calculation when the file is added to VLC. It is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries or whether it can be exploited without user interaction.

Recommendations For versions 2.0.4 and earlier, consider avoiding the use of the SHAddToRecentDocs function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the addition of files to VLC to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5855

Affected Products

Vlc Media Player

References · 9

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/524626 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-5855 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5855 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5855 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5855 · Vendor Advisory
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=135274330022215&w=2 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/12 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5855 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16781 · Note