MEDIUM
VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 3GP file, which triggers the freeing of arbitrary pointers
Published Aug 25, 2015
6.8
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 13.34%
Description
VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 3GP file, which triggers the freeing of arbitrary pointers.
Affected products
No data.
- ≤ 2.2.1
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Weaknesses (1)
References (10)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00040.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133266/VLC-2.2.1-Arbitrary-Pointer-Dereference.html x_refsource_MISC
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3342 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/8 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536287/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-5895 Advisory
- https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=ce91452460a75d7424b165c4dc8db98114c3cbd9%3Bhp=9e12195d3e4316278af1fa4bcb6a705ff27456fd x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- https://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-009.html x_refsource_MISCUS Government Resource
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00040.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133266/VLC-2.2.1-Arbitrary-Pointer-Dereference.html | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3342 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN | |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/3 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/8 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536287/100/0/threaded | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-5895 | Advisory | |
| https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=ce91452460a75d7424b165c4dc8db98114c3cbd9%3Bhp=9e12195d3e4316278af1fa4bcb6a705ff27456fd | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO | |
| https://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-009.html | x_refsource_MISCUS Government Resource |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Aug 25, 2015
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Aug 6, 2015
Link CVE-2015-5949
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
ENISA EUVD
EUVD-2015-5895 Assigner mitre
Published Aug 25, 2015
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Exploited since n/a
Link EUVD-2015-5895