CVE-2015-5949 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.07468.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Videolan Subscribe	Vlc Media Player Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-3342-1	vlc security update
EUVD	EUVD-2015-5895	VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 3GP file, which triggers the freeing of arbitrary pointers.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00040.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133266/VLC-2.2.1-Arbitrary-Pointer-Dereference.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3342
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536287/100/0/threaded
https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=ce91452460a75d7424b165c4dc8db98114c3cbd9%3Bhp=9e12195d3e4316278af1fa4bcb6a705ff27456fd
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08
https://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-009.html

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-08-25T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:06:35.102Z

Reserved: 2015-08-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-5949

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2015-08-25T17:59:05.133

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-5949

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-119

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