PT-2024-10696 · Videolan · Vlc Media Player

Published 2024-11-19 · Updated 2024-11-22 · CVE-2018-9440

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VLC media player (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a possible resource exhaustion due to improper input validation in the M3UParser.cpp file. This could lead to a denial of service, and no additional execution privileges are needed for exploitation. User interaction is required for the issue to be exploited.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-9440

Affected Products

Vlc Media Player

References · 5

• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-09-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-9440 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9440 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/102219 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/11549 · Telegram Post