CVE-2012-1776 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in VLC Media Player

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer5 documents5 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
5.0%
top 10.25%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Videolan VLC Media Player
Timeline
PublishedMar 19
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.0.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Real RTSP stream.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianvideolan/vlc_media_player< 2.0.1-1+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-j25f-76fm-8h6g: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2012-1776: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2↗2012-03-19
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OSV
CVE-2012-1776: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2↗2012-03-19
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2012-1776: vlc - Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.0.1 a...↗2012
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CVE-2012-1776 — Videolan VLC Media Player vulnerability | cvebase