PT-2014-2076 · Videolan · Vlc Media Player

Alex Legler · Published 2014-12-26 · Updated 2014-12-29 · CVE-2010-1444

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VideoLAN VLC media player versions prior to 1.0.6

Description The issue concerns the ZIP archive decompressor in the VideoLAN VLC media player, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in invalid memory access and application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted archive.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0.6, update to version 1.0.6 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of the ZIP archive decompressor until a patch is available. Restrict access to potentially malicious ZIP archives to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-1444

Affected Products

Vlc Media Player

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-1444 · Vendor Advisory
• http://videolan.org/security/sa1003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-1444 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1444 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-1444 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/28/4 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1444 · Note
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-1.1.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=08813ee6f8eb0faf83790bd4247c0a97af75a1cf · Note