CVE-2007-3468 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

input.c in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 0.8.6c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted WAV file that causes an uninitialized i_nb_resamplers variable to be used.

Published: 2007-06-27

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: 1.0% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-1332-1	New vlc packages fix arbitrary code execution
EUVD	EUVD-2007-3453	input.c in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 0.8.6c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted WAV file that causes an uninitialized i_nb_resamplers variable to be used.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0103.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://osvdb.org/38992
http://secunia.com/advisories/25980
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1332
http://www.isecpartners.com/advisories/2007-001-vlc.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471933/100/0/threaded
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14744

History

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Subscriptions

Videolan Vlc Media Player

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-06-27T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T14:21:34.896Z

Reserved: 2007-06-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-3468

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-06-27T22:30:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-3468

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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