CVE-2007-6262: Buffer Overflow
First published: Thu Dec 06 2007(Updated: )
A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a "bad initialized pointer," aka a "recursive plugin release vulnerability."
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Videolan Vlc Media Player | =0.8.6b | |
| Videolan Vlc Media Player | =0.8.6 | |
| Videolan Vlc Media Player | =0.8.6a |
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Reference Links
- http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035
- http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27878
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38816
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14280
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded
- collector/nvd-historical
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/weakness
- agent/severity
- agent/references
- agent/author
- agent/type
- agent/event
- agent/description
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/remedy
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/videolan
- canonical/videolan vlc media player
- version/videolan vlc media player/0.8.6b
- version/videolan vlc media player/0.8.6
- version/videolan vlc media player/0.8.6a