VLC media player 3.0.20 and earlier is vulnerable to denial of service through an integer overflow which could be triggered with a maliciously crafted mms stream (heap based overflow). If successful, a malicious third party could trigger either a crash of VLC or an arbitrary code execution with the target user's privileges.
History

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Videolan
Videolan vlc Media Player
Weaknesses CWE-122
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Videolan
Videolan vlc Media Player
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:45:00 +0000

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Description VLC media player 3.0.20 and earlier is vulnerable to denial of service through an integer overflow which could be triggered with a maliciously crafted mms stream (heap based overflow). If successful, a malicious third party could trigger either a crash of VLC or an arbitrary code execution with the target user's privileges.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-09-25T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-09-25T15:39:36.371Z

Reserved: 2024-09-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2024-46461

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-09-25T15:39:31.700Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-09-25T15:15:14.567

Modified: 2024-09-26T13:32:02.803

Link: CVE-2024-46461

cve-icon Redhat

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