CVE-2007-6262

A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a "bad initialized pointer," aka a "recursive plugin release vulnerability."

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2007-12-06

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Vlc Media Player (Videolan)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/27878
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420
• http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675
• http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38816
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14280