CVE-2015-5949

Description

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.

References

https://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-009.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08

https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=ce91452460a75d7424b165c4dc8db98114c3cbd9%3Bhp=9e12195d3e4316278af1fa4bcb6a705ff27456fd

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-5895

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536287/100/0/threaded

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/8

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/3

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3342

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133266/VLC-2.2.1-Arbitrary-Pointer-Dereference.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00040.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS