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CVE-2011-3623

N/A

Published: December 26, 2014 at 08:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:33 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorVLC media player

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 4%

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted ASF file, related to the ASF_ObjectDumpDebug function in modules/demux/asf/libasf.c; (2) a crafted AVI file, related to the AVI_ChunkDumpDebug_level function in modules/demux/avi/libavi.c; or (3) a crafted MP4 file, related to the __MP4_BoxDumpStructure function in modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0901.html

References (6)

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=861e374d03e6c60c7d3c98428c632fe3b9e371b2

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c5b02d011b8c634d041167f4d2936b55eca4d18d

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dfe7084e8cc64e9b7a87cd37065b59cba2064823

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/18/10

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0901.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285370

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-119

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