CVE-2013-3245

MEDIUM
6.3
CVSS Score
Published: July 10, 2013 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:54 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorVLC media player

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Severity
MEDIUM6.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
SSVC
PoC

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

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:

References (7)

Mailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jul/71
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/52956
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/blog/372/

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CVSS

6.3MEDIUMCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
LOW
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119CWE-122CWE-125

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