CVE-2012-3377 — 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
6.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
3.9%
top 11.70%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Videolan VLC Media Player
Timeline
PublishedJul 12
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ogg_DecodePacket function in the OGG demuxer (modules/demux/ogg.c) in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted OGG file.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianvideolan/vlc_media_player< 2.0.2-1+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-93jf-gm4j-2jw8: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ogg_DecodePacket function in the OGG demuxer (modules/demux/ogg↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2012-3377: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ogg_DecodePacket function in the OGG demuxer (modules/demux/ogg↗2012-07-12
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CVEList
CVE-2012-3377: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ogg_DecodePacket function in the OGG demuxer (modules/demux/ogg↗2012-07-12
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2012-3377: vlc - Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ogg_DecodePacket function in the OGG demuxer (...↗2012
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CVE-2012-3377 — Videolan VLC Media Player vulnerability | cvebase