PT-2015-4301 · Videolan+1 · Vlc Media Player+1

Veysel Hatas · CVE-2014-9597 · Published 2015-01-21 · Updated 2024-02-14

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VLC media player version 2.1.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service, resulting in a DEP violation and application crash, via a crafted FLV file. This is due to a problem in the picture pool Delete function.

Recommendations For version 2.1.5, consider avoiding the use of crafted FLV files until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the handling of FLV files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1261

CVE-2014-9597

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Vlc Media Player

References · 30

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/35901 · Exploit
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9625 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-03981 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9597 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01038 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-03980 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9743 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9627 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9597 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1261 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-03984 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3941 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9626 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9597 · Security Note