CVE-2007-6262 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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."

Published: 2007-12-06

Score: 6.8 Medium

EPSS: 22.8% Moderate

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 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.8.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.8.6a:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.8.6b:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.22802.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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

History

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Subscriptions

Videolan Vlc Media Player

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-12-06T02:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:02:35.568Z

Reserved: 2007-12-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-6262

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-12-06T02:46:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2007-6262

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-119

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