CVE-2009-1045

published 2009-03-23

CVE-2009-1045: requests/status.xml in VLC 0.9.8a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via a long input argument in an in_play…

Priority P4 27 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I N A P

EXPLOIT

requests/status.xml in VLC 0.9.8a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via a long input argument in an in_play action.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	vlc	< vlc 0.9.9a-1 (bookworm)	vlc 0.9.9a-1 (bookworm)
videolan	vlc_media_player	—	—
videolan	vlc_media_player	>= 0 < 0.9.9a-1	0.9.9a-1
videolan	vlc_media_player	>= 0 < 0.9.9a-1	0.9.9a-1
videolan	vlc_media_player	>= 0 < 0.9.9a-1	0.9.9a-1
videolan	vlc_media_player	>= 0 < 0.9.9a-1	0.9.9a-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 LOW

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