6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-5949

Published: 25/08/2015 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.1 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 3GP file, which triggers the freeing of arbitrary pointers.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #825728 vlc: CVE-2016-5108 Package: src:vlc; Maintainer for src:vlc is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 10:06:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security, upstream Found in ve ...
Debian Bug report logs - #796255 vlc: CVE-2015-5949 Package: src:vlc; Maintainer for src:vlc is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:54:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: fixed-upstream, patch, security, upstream ...