CVE-2013-3245

MEDIUM

VideoLAN VLC Media Player <2.0.7 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

plugins/demux/libmkv_plugin.dll in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.0.7, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MKV file, possibly involving an integer overflow and out-of-bounds read or heap-based buffer overflow, or an uncaught exception. NOTE: the vendor disputes the severity and claimed vulnerability type of this issue, stating "This PoC crashes VLC, indeed, but does nothing more... this is not an integer overflow error, but an uncaught exception and I doubt that it is exploitable. This uncaught exception makes VLC abort, not execute random code, on my Linux 64bits machine." A PoC posted by the original researcher shows signs of an attacker-controlled out-of-bounds read, but the affected instruction does not involve a register that directly influences control flow

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61032
Exploit mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jul/71
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/52956
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jul/77
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jul/79
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://secunia.com/blog/372/

Scores

CVSS v3 6.3
EPSS 0.0186
EPSS Percentile 83.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-119 CWE-122 CWE-125
Status published
Products (1)
videolan/vlc_media_player 2.0.7
Published Jul 10, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026