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CVSSv2

CVE-2009-1045

Published: 23/03/2009 Updated: 29/09/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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

Vulnerability Trend

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videolan vlc media player 0.9.8a

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #522170 vlc: CVE-2009-1045 denial of service if web user interface is used Package: vlc; Maintainer for vlc is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@listsdebianorg>; Source for vlc is src:vlc (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Nico Golde <nion@debianorg> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 1 ...

Exploits

#!/usr/bin/perl ######################################################## ## VLC 098a Web UI Remote Stack Overflow (DoS) by TheLeader ## GreetZ: forumshackingorgil ## TiP oF TEh DaY: Rock on! =] ######################################################## use IO::Socket; my $host = shift || 'localhost'; # Target host my $port = shift || 8080; # ...