PT-2015-4376 · Videolan+1 · Vlc Media Player+1

Published 2015-03-05 · Updated 2015-08-19 · CVE-2014-9743

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VLC Media Player versions prior to 2.2.0

Description The issue is related to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the httpd HtmlError function. This allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the path info.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.2.0, update to version 2.2.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1261

CVE-2014-9743

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Vlc Media Player

References · 29

• 🔥 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/324 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://quantumleap.it/vlc-reflected-xss-vulnerability · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9743 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9598 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9597 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9743 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01038 · 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-2014-9630 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9743 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-03981 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9743 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3941 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-9743 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1261 · Vendor Advisory