CVE-2007-6684 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The RTSP module in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request without a Transport parameter, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Published: 2008-01-17

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very 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

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc:0.8.6d:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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
EUVD	EUVD-2007-6648	The RTSP module in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request without a Transport parameter, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

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 Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00877.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-September/034722.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29284
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/22023
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14876

History

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Subscriptions

Videolan Vlc

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-01-17T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:18:20.238Z

Reserved: 2008-01-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-6684

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-01-17T01:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2007-6684

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

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