CVE-2007-6262: 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)…

PriorityP338medium6.8CVSS 2.0

AVNACMAuNCPIPAP

EXPLOIT

EPSS

11.12%

95.4th percentile

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."

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	vlc	—	—
videolan	vlc_media_player	—	—
videolan	vlc_media_player	—	—
videolan	vlc_media_player	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

vendor_debian6.8LOW

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