CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-6262

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2007-12-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-12-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

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."

Affected configurations

• videolan vlc media player 0.8.6 • videolan vlc media player 0.8.6a • videolan vlc media player 0.8.6b

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References