CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-6683
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-01-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
The browser plugin in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via (1) the :demuxdump-file option in a filename in a playlist, or (2) a EXTVLCOPT statement in an MP3 file, possibly an argument injection vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• videolan vlc 0.8.6d
References
- http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-December/037726.html Exploit
- http://osvdb.org/42205 osvdb.org
- http://osvdb.org/42206 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29284 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29766 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543 www.debian.org
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28712 www.securityfocus.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14619 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/23197 trac.videolan.org
- https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1371 trac.videolan.org
- http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-December/037726.html Exploit
- http://osvdb.org/42205 osvdb.org
- http://osvdb.org/42206 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29284 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29766 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543 www.debian.org
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28712 www.securityfocus.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14619 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/23197 trac.videolan.org
- https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1371 trac.videolan.org