PT-2017-5977 · Videolan+1 · Vlc Media Player+1

Published 2014-08-05 · Updated 2017-04-03 · CVE-2014-6440

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: VideoLAN VLC media player versions prior to 2.1.5

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 2.1.5, update to version 2.1.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1986

CVE-2014-6440

MGASA-2015-0095

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Vlc Media Player

References · 21

• 🔥 http://billblough.net/blog/2015/03/04/cve-2014-6440-heap-overflow-in-vlc-transcode-module · Exploit
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-6440 · Vendor Advisory
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/751 · Patch
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-1986 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6440 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6440 · Security Note
• http://videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0095.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6440 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6440 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-6440 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-6440 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-6440 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0095 · Vendor Advisory