CVE-2014-9628

HIGH

VLC media player <2.1.6 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The MP4_ReadBox_String function in modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.1.6 allows remote attackers to trigger an unintended zero-size malloc and conduct buffer overflow attacks, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a box size of 7.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/20/5
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.videolan.org/security/sa1501.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0163
EPSS Percentile 82.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-120
Status published
Products (1)
videolan/vlc_media_player < 2.1.6
Published Jan 24, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026